Shadows

A condemned man leaves the truth in fragments. A letter, a dossier, and a town that insists the monster was human.

What does your Shadow do when you turn out the lights?

In Junebug, Oklahoma 74666—Where Hell comes Sweeping down the Plains—the answer isn’t comforting: Your Shadow is hungry.

When a man insists he didn’t commit the crimes that ruined his life, nobody believes him . . . until the evidence starts pointing somewhere impossible.

Shadows isn’t a story about the supernatural as much as it is about the unnatural—the kind of horror that slips into ordinary life and rearranges it from the inside out. In a town that looks small enough to understand, something impossible moves just off the edge of sight: a presence that mimics, taunts, and feeds on what people refuse to name.

Told through unsettling fragments—letters, records, and testimony—Shadows is a descent into obsession, guilt, and the terrifying possibility that the worst thing you’ve ever done might not have been done by you.

As the line between reality and nightmare blurs, the question stops being whether the darkness is real, and becomes whether you can survive what it wants from you.

In Junebug, Oklahoma, the dark doesn’t just fall—it watches.

Turn on the lights. Then ask yourself: if your shadow isn’t behind you . . . where is it?

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This modern gothic-noir crime horror novella is rooted in the unnatural—not the supernatural. It contains violence, ritualized murder, and psychologically intense themes.

This book contains disturbing themes, graphic language, violence, and other mature content.

• Small-town horror with a dark, satirical edge

• Psychological dread and creeping paranoia

• Unreliable narrators, documents, and “found” testimony

• A shadow-self premise that turns identity into a nightmare

The publisher tells you this frankly, so if you wish to avoid the agitated excitement, the tension, and the psychological triggers of this factionalized tale, you are urged, calmly and sincerely, to close this book and find something a bit happier and sunnier for you to read.

Reader discretion is advised.