Mr. Shivers

Name: Mr. Shivers
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
ISBN: 9781449815493

Author: Robert Jackson Bennett

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/16/2010

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Contemporary, Gothic, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Robert Jackson Bennett makes a stunning debut with this deliciously dark tale sure to hold readers in its menacing thrall. The grinding poverty brought on by the Great Depression is nowhere more apparent than in the untold thousands looking for work along America's railroad system. But one man haunting the rail camps has been moved by an entirely different brand of desperation: revenge. And Marcus Connelly won't stop until he avenges his daughter's brutal murder at the hands of a monster known as Mr. Shivers.

About Robert Jackson Bennett

Robert Jackson Bennett is the author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy, which was a 2018 Hugo Awards finalist in the Best Series category. The first book in the series, City of Stairs, was also a finalist for the World Fantasy and Locus Awards, and the second, City of Blades, was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. His previous novels, which include American Elsewhere and Mr. Shivers, have received the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Philip K. Dick Citation of Excellence. He lives in Austin with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes

The main character Marcus Connelly in the novel ‘Mr. Shivers’ by a Robert Jackson Bennett has been silently traveling from one hobo-camp to another - walking, hitching rides, sneaking aboard trains. He is astonished by the numbers of similar dirty tramps on the roads, camping rough. He has been lear......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

I'm very impressed with this novel for a few reasons, not least because it's a good, long adventure of revenge. I think I loved its feel of near-universal poverty set in the time of the Great Depression the most, however. The long-off, almost impossible quest to kill the bogeyman named Mr. Shivers ac......more