A Sliver of Darkness

Stories

By: C. J. Tudor

Narrated by: C. J. Tudor, Richie Campbell, Dakota Blue Richards, Roy McMillan, Richard Armitage, Adam Sims

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

The debut short-story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, hailed as “Britain’s female Stephen King” (Daily Mail), featuring eleven bone-chilling and mind-bending tales

“All hail the queen of scream. A Sliver of Darkness is C. J. Tudor at her spine-tingling, nightmare-inducing best. Read it if you dare.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End

Time slips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor’s novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense plots, but with A Sliver of Darkness, she pulls us even further into her dizzying imagination.

In “The Lion at the Gate,” a strange piece of graffiti leads to a terrifying encounter for four school friends. In “Final Course,” the world has descended into darkness, but a group of old friends make time for one last dinner party. In “Runaway Blues,” thwarted love, revenge, and something very nasty stowed in a hat box converge. In “Gloria,” a strange girl at a service station endears herself to a coldhearted killer, but can a leopard really change its spots? And in “I’m Not Ted,” a case of mistaken identity has unforeseen fatal consequences.

Riveting, macabre, and explosively original, A Sliver of Darkness is C. J. Tudor at her most wicked and uninhibited.

©2022 C.J. Tudor (P)2022 Random House Audio

Solid story collection

I liked this a lot on the whole - like most short story collections, it does vary in quality, but in this case it was easily skewed towards stories I enjoyed. Even my least favorite were still decent. Solid recommend overall, it also gets a good compliment in that I enjoyed it enough to go back and pick up the author's earlier novels that imtersected with some of this material.

Great collection of short stories

I’m not usually one for short stories but these were great! Very well performed too.

great variety of scary to horrific tales

i wish more were included in this anthology. The author is a marvelous writer and I can't wait for more books to be published.

Loved It!!

"The problem with darkness was once you let it in it lurked in the corners of your mind, filling them with shadows."

So many great little stories!! Absolutely LOVED this collection, it's a rarity to find a bundle of short stories where they all deliver!!

Brilliant!

Clever, witty, thoroughly enjoyable… in a twisty dark way of course! Keep them coming please CJ!

great short stories

I especially liked the introductions to each story by the author. I really liked all of these!

Horror stories by CJ Tudor

These tales will probably appeal to horror fans but they weren't for me. The readers do a great job, but it isn't enough to make them as good as Ms Tudor's longer works.

Not up to her usual standard

The collection of stories felt like the author and her agent were capitalizing on her novel success to sell some old stories that would never have been published otherwise. While the stories were ok, they lacked the imagination and wit of her novels. Echoes of Stephen King resound a little too strongly for me--a woman in an abandoned hotel seeing two children that aren't there, getting drinks from an imaginary bartender, and more similarities to the Shining. Another story has a woman discovering a mysterious way to revitalize broken and dying things and does so with her cat. Two of her novels have King similarities also. Given the author's tone and voice in her writing, and her ability to pull the reader into a scene, I hope for more originality in the plot. The narrators did fine. The author's introduction to each story didn't appeal to me. Describing how the inspiration for the story came about seems a bit self-indulgent. Hopefully, her next work will be a novel, which I will happily buy.

I trying to finish this but it’s not easy

I admit I haven’t finished this book yet but geez what a collection of stale stories. Some lousy Stephen King, Twilight Zone and Creepshow style stories neither scary nor clever. After The Chalk Man her novels just don’t measure up. Too bad. No longer an author I will follow.