With 聽his debut novel, Mr. Shivers, Southern writer Robert Jackson Bennett 聽presents a pulpy, Great Depression horror story where a mysterious 聽killer "trails death behind him." After his daughter is brutally 聽murdered, a revenge-seeking Marcus Connelly leaves Memphis on a hunt 聽across America's hobo camps and ghost towns for the grotesquely scarred, 聽ghostly figure known as "Mr. Shivers." On his quest Connelly teams up 聽with a scrappy band of hobos recovering from their own brushes with "the 聽gray man," and the body count increases as they ride the rails tracking 聽their target. Connelly's spiraling bloodlust begins to rival Shivers's, 聽threatening to take more than just his family and friends away from 聽him. Sprinkled with hobo folklore, Bennett's supernatural dust storm of a 聽debut offers a killer premise and may remind readers of vintage Stephen 聽King.