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      Copyright ©2016 Paul Kane

      Cover art copyright ©2003 Vincent Chong

      Introduction copyright ©2016 Muriel Gray

      Copyright © Paul Kane 2016

      The right of Paul Kane to be identified as the

      Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance

      with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-909640-87-0

      2016 SST Publications eBook Edition

      Published by

      Short, Scary Tales Publications

      15 North Roundhay

      Birmingham

      B33 9PE

      England

      www.sstpublications.co.uk

      eBook design by Paul Fry

      First Digital Edition: December 2016

      OTHER BOOKS BY PAUL KANE:

      NOVELS

      Arrowhead

      Broken Arrow

      Arrowland

      Hooded Man (Omnibus)

      The Gemini Factor

      Of Darkness and Light

      Lunar

      Sleeper(s)

      The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane)

      Blood RED

      Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell

      Forthcoming: Before & Deep RED

      NOVELLAS & NOVELETTES

      Signs of Life

      The Lazarus Condition

      Dalton Quayle Rides Out

      RED

      Pain Cages

      Creakers (chapbook)

      Flaming Arrow

      The Bric-a-Brac Man

      The P.I.’s Tale

      Snow

      The Crimson Mystery (chapbook)

      The Rot

      COLLECTIONS

      Alone (In the Dark)

      Touching the Flame

      FunnyBones

      Peripheral Visions

      The Shadows Trilogy

      The Adventures of Dalton Quayle

      Shadow Writer

      The Butterfly Man and Other Stories

      The Spaces Between

      Ghosts

      Monsters

      The Dead Trilogy

      The Spirits of Christmas

      Forthcoming: Disexistence & Nailbiters

      EDITOR & CO-EDITOR

      Shadow Writers Vol. 1 & 2

      Terror Tales #1-4

      Top International Horror

      Albions Alptraume: Zombies

      The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration

      Hellbound Hearts

      The Mammoth Book of Body Horror

      A Carnivàle of Horror: Dark Tales from the Fairground

      Beyond Rue Morgue

      Forthcoming: Dark Mirages

      NON-FICTION

      Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide (Major Contributor)

      Cinema Macabre (Contributor)

      The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy

      Voices in the Dark

      Shadow Writer – The Non-Fiction. Vol. 1: Reviews

      Shadow Writer – The Non-Fiction. Vol. 2: Articles & Essays

      DEDICATION:

      For my parents, who always believed—and my lovely Marie.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

      My thanks to Paul Fry at SST for giving me the chance to celebrate all these years of fiction. A huge thank you to Muriel Gray for her wonderful introduction, and to Vincent Chong for the allowing us to use his artwork for the cover. And a massive thank you to all the editors and publishers who had enough faith in the stories to publish them originally. As usual, hugs and massive thank yous to all my friends in the writing and film/TV world, for their continual help and support in the past. A very special thank you, though, to people like Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Mandy Slater, Stephen Jones, Amanda Foubister, Alexandra Benedict, Christopher Fowler, Stephen Volk, Tim Lebbon, Kelley Armstrong, Peter James, Mike Carey, Barbie Wilde, John Connolly, Pete & Nicky Crowther, Simon Clark, Jason Arnopp and so many more. You’re all the best. Last, but never, ever least, a-big-words-are-not-enough thank you to my supportive family and my wife Marie, who keep me sane when the world is crazy. Love you guys more than anything.

      PREVIOUS PUBLICATION HISTORY

      Shadow Writer (Enigmatic Tales Number 7, Winter 1999)

      Strobe (Nemonymous Issue 1, November 2001)

      Rag and Bone (The Butterfly Man, PS Publishing 2011)

      Biorhythms (House of Pain site, May 2002)

      Yin and Yang (Peripheral Visions, CGP 2008)

      Men of the Cloth (The Spaces Between, Dark Moon 2013)

      The Butterfly Man (The Butterfly Man, PS Publishing 2011)

      Homeland (Assembly of Rogues, Rainfall Books 2005)

      A Chaos Demon is for Life... (Estronomicon Christmas Special, Dec 2008)

      Dead Time (The Lazarus Condition, Tasmaniac 2007)

      Signs of Life (Signs of Life, Crystal Serenades 2005)

      Eye of the Beholder (Alone (In the Dark), BJM 2001)

      CONTENTS

       Introduction by Muriel Gray

       Shadow Writer

       Strobe

       Rag and Bone

       Biorhythms

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