Shiver Themes

Lots of supernatural stories rely on transformation: Breaking Dawn, The Metamorphosis, Michael Jackson's “Thriller” video. But the transformation can almost always mean something different. It...

Families come in all different shapes and sizes. You might live with your great-grandmother, four cousins, and two dads in a single-wide trailer. Or you might be raised by a single mom. Or maybe yo...

Grace in Shiver and Fern in Charlotte's Web have something in common: they're both in love with animals. Besides the obvious difference that Sam would eat Wilbur given half a chance, there's more t...

Changing into a werewolf sounds pretty awesome. You get to run around in the woods all day. Eat whatever you want. Not wear pants. Pee on everything. It would be like living in an episode of Wild K...

Pretty much any story set in a small town is going to be about freedom and confinement. Add into that mix teenagers and werewolves, and the desire to escape is so strong we're surprised Mercy Falls...

When we think of foreignness and the other, we think of foreign countries, different cultures, and monsters like Grendel. We don't think of Minnesota. Then we remember that Prince came from Minneap...

There's a lot of screaming in horror movies. And running. And more screaming. Most of the time the fear is very in-your-face. But fear, just like movie horrors, can take different forms. Shiver isn...

Forgiveness, popularized by Jesus back in the Biblical days, is a valued trait. Maybe because it's so freaking difficult to actually forgive somebody. Now imagine if that “somebody” was a werew...