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The Blanks

The Shivers Collection

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The Blanks

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Moniqua Plante
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Residents have an unspoken pact with the island’s unnatural inhabitants: ignore them, live happily. But in New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix’s thrilling short story, one boy can’t look away—and pays the price.

Jeckle Island offers Rachel’s children the chance to spend summers roaming wild and free, as long as they follow the rules. But when her son comes face to face with a terror they dare not speak of, she must prepare for their perfect world to change. Forever.

Grady Hendrix’s The Blanks 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 Grady Hendrix. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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It’s not the kind of story that jumps out at you with gore or shock - instead, it creeps in slowly, unsettling you with its off-kilter tone and mounting sense of dread. There’s a mystery at the core of it, but what really hit me was the eerie undercurrent that something is deeply wrong and no one is doing anything about it. Everyone in the story seems to look the other way, and that felt like a sharp commentary on the world we live in now - where so many of us can see that something isn’t right, yet feel powerless to change it. Hendrix nails that atmosphere of denial and unease. It’s a short read, but it lingers. Highly recommended.

Creepy, Suspenseful, and Uncomfortably Relevant

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