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

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.

Critic reviews

“Beautifully barbaric, creepy as hell, and crammed with barbed wit . . . Tudor can say more in one short story than many writers can manage in a full-length novel.”—John Marrs, internationally bestselling author of The Passengers

“Brilliantly creepy and perfectly executed.”—James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series

“A decadent and phantasmagorical descent into the dark chasm where I first fell in love with horror fiction. Told with real heart along with demonic savagery, these are stories to luxuriate with in the tenebrous.”—Matt Wesolowski, award-winning author of Six Stories

“Tudor . . . provides plenty of subtle chills in this superior collection of eleven stories. . . . Twilight Zone fans will hope for another collection from this gifted writer.”—Publishers Weekly

Fun Scary

Great mix of good bad guys and bad good guys. Not a boring story in the lot.

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.

Just right!

Excellent collection of short stories. Scary, thrilling, things you think about but don’t want to consider. Love this author, she does everything just right.

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!!