Book Synopsis:
Idyllic memories?
A perfect childhood?
A secret buried for thirty years…
None of us could remember why we drifted apart – we were always so close at school…
That was thirty years ago, and I hadn’t thought of my school friends in all that time – it was like they’d never existed.
Then the dreams started. Dreams that I knew I’d had before. Horrific dreams of fear and fire and death.
Dreams of a ghostly urban legend who seemed to hang over my home village like an evil spirit – the Shadow Man.
I’d begun to remember, and I knew we had to go back.
What happened to us back then?
Do we really want to know?
Are we ready to face the Shadow Man again?
The Shadow Man – a terrifying new horror from the author of The Hand of an Angel.
Perfect for fans of Alex North , CJ Tudor and Stephen Chbosky.
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Extract:
I picked up the phone after watching the show. Some people had push button phones now, Clara even had a cordless one, but not us, no, we had a regular old-fashioned avocado phone with a dial. I dialled Clara’s number. As the phone rang I sat down in the hallway, having pulled the phone cord under the lounge door – not the easiest thing to do as Dad still hadn’t got around to planing the bottom of the door off since the arrival of the new, thicker carpet nearly a year ago. Shutting the door took some effort.
‘Did you see the news?’ I asked as she answered, slightly out of breath.
‘Yeah, the scientist guy.’
‘So it was spontaneous human combustion…?’
‘Fuck off. People don’t just burst into flames – they just don’t. And why wasn’t her nightie or bed clothes burned too? Nah, something’s not right. Well, apart from someone being dead not being right, of course.’
∞∞∞
For days, TV crews raced around the village trying to interview as many people as possible – anyone who’d ever spoken to Mrs Grimshaw, as we now more respectfully referred to her, now that she was dead. We watched all of this from the outside – occasionally they’d try and speak to us but we avoided them like the plague. They didn’t know that we’d seen more of the case up close than anyone other than the police on the scene, and we could’ve told that story, but it didn’t interest us. Besides, in the back of my mind I was still worried we’d get into trouble if they found out we’d been snooping in her garden. The naivety of youth. Instead we followed them, watching from afar, sitting on our bikes around a corner as herds of journalists migrated from one lead to the next.
Interest in the story started to wane after that. A few journalists did longer pieces about the village or Mrs Grimshaw – one particularly nasty piece of lazy journalism in the local paper ripped off Professor Lankham’s interview and suggested that she’d had a drink problem and had fallen asleep pissed with a cigarette in her hand. Lankham stayed around for a couple of days, speaking in turn to both ITV and the BBC as well as the various freelance magazine journalists who’d stayed.
About The Author:
Mark Brownless lives and works in Carmarthen, West Wales, UK. He has been putting ideas on paper for some years now but only when the idea for THE HAND OF AN ANGEL came to him in the autumn of 2015 did he know he might be able to write a book. Mark likes to write about ordinary people being placed in extraordinary circumstances, is fascinated by unexplained phenomena, and enjoys merging thriller, science fiction and horror. Mark’s new novel, The Shadow Man is a terrifying horror thriller imagining what would happen if you found out the memories of your childhood were untrue, and that something sinister was lurking behind the facade of your life. Could you face what had happened back then? Could you face The Shadow Man. Mark is also fascinated by myths and legends such as those of Robin Hood and King Arthur. This has culminated in the release of his short story series, Locksley, a Robin Hood story.
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