Shining in the Dark
Editor Hans-Ãke Lilja
About the Book:
Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand new anthology of horror stories to celebrate twenty years of running the #1 Stephen King news website on the web!
This anthology includes both original stories like a brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (
Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like "The Blue Air Compressor" by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age!
Now, let's join Lilja... He's already waiting for us, there ahead in the darkness... You see him, don't you? Just keep walking, you'll find him soon enough, we promise... He's there, shining and waiting for you... Take his hand and then you, too, will shine in the dark!
Table of Contents
"Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library (An Introduction) by Hans-Åke Lilja
"The Blue Air Compressor" by Stephen King
"The Net" by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek
"The Novel of the Holocaust" by Stewart O'Nan
"Aeliana" by Bev Vincent
"Pidgin and Theresa" by Clive Barker
"An End To All Things " by Brian Keene
"Cemetery Dance" by Richard Chizmar
"Drawn to the Flame" by Kevin Quigley
"The Companion" by Ramsey Campbell
"A Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"A Mother's Love" by Brian James Freeman
"The Keeper's Companion" by John Ajvide Lindqvist
"Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library (An Afterword)" by Hans-Åke Lilja
My Thoughts:
Vincent Chong does the wonderfully detailed cover which sort of surprised me. I thought this was more a Glenn Chadbourne creation.
My copy did not have the interior art by Erin S. Wells so that must have been a special edition perk.
This was a good group of stories. The one that spoke well and good to me was Brian Keene's,
An End to All Things.