A Host of Shadows [Lettered]

"Everyone carries a shadow," wrote analyst Carl Jung, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."

Few of us see the shadow with any clarity. Turn around for a peek, it slips away. Our violent, sexually tinged fantasies are indulged regularly in darkened theaters, savored in eerie prose, celebrated in song, sometimes reluctantly encountered within the depths of a reoccurring nightmare. When we do look hard at one, long enough to recognize it as our own, the experience can challenge reality. We can then choose to become wiser as a result - or spin totally out of control...

How many fragments of a shattered mirror could you examine and still survive?

In this collection, his first in nearly ten years, award winning author Harry Shannon gives us twenty three short stories, some published here for the first time.

"Master craftsmanship." - CEMETERY DANCE

"Shannon is a writer who is not afraid to walk into the Shadows and drag the things living there kicking and screaming into the light." - Brian Keene

"Harry Shannon takes age-old themes and gives them a new and fearsome bite. Vividly realized, his writing is controlled, assured, and filled with the kind of spooky atmosphere that used to make you hide your head under the bed covers on wind-wracked nights." - Tom Piccirilli

Harry Shannon has won the Tombstone, the Black Quill, and been nominated for the Stoker. Although primarily a novelist, the author has sold stories to a number of genre magazines including Cemetery Dance, Horror Garage, City Slab, Crime Spree and Gothic.net. He contributed to a Cemetery Dance Publications' Brimstone Turnpike, as well as shorter fiction to several genre anthologies, among them Dead West, A Dark and Deadly Valley, Dead Set, and In Delirium II.

Shannon's first signed and limited edition short story collection Bad Seed debuted in June of 2001. His debut horror novelNight of the Beast-the first in a pulp trilogy set in northeastern Nevada-was released in 2002. The acclaimed Night of the Werewolf won the small press Tombstone Award for Best Novel of 2003. The final book in the series, Night of the Demon was released by Delirium Press in 2005. These 'Night' books are currently out of print, but may be back in 2010.