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Letter Slot

The Shivers Collection

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Letter Slot

By: Owen King
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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A helping hand, a fateful cost. In this ominous short story from New York Times bestselling author Owen King, the cost of living keeps rising—and it collects payment from the soul.

Sensing his mother’s failing health, a struggling teenager pours out his worries in a letter and drops it through the mail slot of an abandoned show house. He’s surprised when a response arrives, promising good fortune for the price of just one name: someone he hates. He’d give anything for his mother. But the true cost may be more than he’s willing to pay.

Owen King’s Letter Slot is part of The Shivers, a collection of haunting stories that reveal the otherworldly terrors all around us. Once you know, there’s no going back. Read or listen to each story in one unsettling sitting.

©2025 by Owen King. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Horror Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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This was excellent! My first read of Owen King’s work and I’ll definitely be checking out more after this! This is an intense and creepy short story about a teenager whose growing concern for his ailing mother and their financial difficulties prompts him to unknowingly reach out to something. As the story progresses, the eeriness ramps up and it really had me gripped the entire time! Read this via Audible and the narrator performed it really well too. This is the third story I’ve read in the Shivers collection and I’ve genuinely enjoyed each of them equally so far. Definitely recommend if you want a quick horror story that is bleak and unsettling!

Creepy, bleak and unsettling. What’s not to love?!

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