Screaming Dreams

The Shadows Trilogy by Paul Kane

"Paul Kane is a rare talent with a fiendish imagination"
— Stephen Laws

Introduction

What can I say about the Order of the Shadows that has not already been written?

Very little, I suspect, and remain alive. Their agents are everywhere, you see – monitoring everything, much like those other creatures I have written about in the past whose name I dare not repeat for fear they might be observing through their globes in their distant dimension; those who watch, who manipulate, who control.

In actual fact the two mythos have quite a bit in common. I started to write about them both around the same time, the late 1990s, an era of paranoia, of millennium bugs and Nostradamus prophecies. The predicted end of the world didn’t come, of course, but that might just be because The Order wasn’t ready yet. Give them time, reader, give them time.

So, to these ‘fictions’ I present before you – or perhaps fictionalised retellings of events that might have happened? No, I really shouldn’t say that. It’s better for all concerned to think of these as inventions. It makes it easier to sleep at night – and makes it less likely that The Order should turn its attentions to us.

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Published 2008

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About the Author

Paul Kane works as a lecturer in Film & Media Studies, Creative Writing and Art & Design, and delivers wokshops about Horror writing. Over the course of the last few years Paul has had stories published in major anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. He has gained several British Fantasy Society Award Recommendations, as well as Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror edited by Ellen Datlow. He is currently serving as Special Publications Editor of the BFS and is also involved in various exciting projects - which includes film work, graphic novels and editing the Shadow Writer and Terror Tales print anthologies. Recent publications include the 'horredy' collection FunnyBones (which recently went into a second printing) and the novella Signs of Life. Forthcoming from him are more novellas, a further collection and his first novel.

Author's Homepage : www.shadow-writer.co.uk

About the Artist

David Anthony Magitis is an international award winning artist, currently residing in the UK. His work has been quoted as dark surreal, revealing the human rabid condition that lurks within. He is self taught and uses a large range of medias from traditional airbrush to digital to complete his work. His art is collected worldwide and has been published in various books and magazines.

Artist's Homepage : www.damagitis.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk