• Author: Stephen Graham Jones
• Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
• Publishing year: 2025
• Pages: 35 (kindle)
• Cover: Lucy Kim
• ISBN: 978-1662532184

https://www.amazon.com/Indigo-Room-Shivers-collection-ebook/dp/B0DRLFDBL5

Review:

Headless

In april 2025 a bunch of new short stories were released by Amazon for Kindle. Joe Hill (Jackknife… I already read this last year so my review is online on Insta and here on my blog), Owen King, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward and Stephen Graham Jones all wrote a short horror tale that makes us shiver. Each name has gained faim in the horror scene, two of them spawn from the King of horror even. It’s Graham Jones’ turn now with ‘The Indigo Room!

Horror can be found in many places and doesn’t always need to come from ghouls or vampires. Sometimes it’s close by in your everyday surroundings like.. your workplace. Jennifer is in a board meeting, awaiting the lights to go out and the slideshow to start. When this happens, she sees some truly weird and horrific things like a beheaded colleague and another one who is missing a piece of his arm. Jennifer panics and is in utter shock, so much so she alarms her colleagues and the lights in the Indigo Room are turned back on, normalising everything. Anna’s got her head back in place and Ted has two arms again.

No one understands what had happened and no one thinks long off it, shrugging it off as a fluke event. Only Jennifer keeps thinking something might be happening. But her mind is soon distracted again when she needs to take care of her son and have him brought over to the office.

Shortly after things happen that not only prove Jennifer what she saw was a sort of premonition but this might have some disastrous implications for her as well.

‘The Indigo Room’ is short but has quite a lot of storytelling to do. There’s a lot in here and some of the scenes in the Indigo Room are scary, if only by the implications and atmosphere in there. There’s only part I wasn’t a huge fan of was the ending. It was left ambiguous (ok, I can understand and take that) but I had hopes for a different kind of ending, so it felt (and fell) a bit flat and unresolved for me. Otherwise, a great story to get myself acquainted with the author, who’s ‘The Only Good Indians’ is still waiting on my shelf to be read!

And now I will continue a bit faster and not wait another year to continue this collection. Next up: ‘The Blanks’ by Grady Hendrix.