   “This is the beginning and the end of things all rolled into one ball and clattering through the everyday world, leaving terror and ruin in their wake.” Have you ever wondered why Paul Kane’s website is entitled ‘Shadow Writer’? Did you ever stop to think where the name came from? With the new release coming from the Sinister Horror Company, you can find out. The Sinister Horror Company are proud to announce we will be working with Paul Kane again, releasing a new collection ‘Darkness and Shadows’ on the 13th March 2021. The collection will feature his rare and, until now, out of print novella Of Darkness and Light, and for the first time ever, a complete collection of Paul’s ‘Order of Shadows’ stories, including some brand new tales. The collection also features an introduction from horror legend M. R. Carey. The fantastic cover photography is by Michael Marshall Smith, and the design by Justin Park.  Paul has this to say about the forthcoming collection: “Fear of the dark can be crippling, but it’s also a very healthy thing I think. The prologue to Of Darkness and Light, where the young boy is in bed worrying about all kinds of dangers in the blackness, is basically me as a kid; I had, and still have, a very vivid imagination! Being afraid of stuff like that is what kept us alive back when we lived in caves and huddled around the fire, not just for warmth but because it drove away the dark. Of Darkness and Light, the short novel I wrote as a limited release for Thunderstorm Books originally, came out over a decade ago. And, like a lot of my back catalogue, is now either very hard to get hold of or costs a fortune. So, part of why I pitched this new book to Sinister was to offer people who hadn’t seen the novel before the opportunity to read it, as well as opening it out to a much bigger audience. But in this book I also wanted to gather together all of my ‘Order of the Shadows’ stories, a mythology I’ve been writing about since the beginning of my career. In fact my website is named after the very first of these tales, ‘Shadow Writer’. I’d been meaning to write some new material in this vein for quite some time and this new release also allowed me to do that, expanding on the originals and broadening things out a bit… with one eye on a very special crossover at some point down the line. Keep watching this space! They present the other side of the coin to Of Darkness… a more organised, perhaps even more terrifying side. But all are about a quite healthy fear of what’s lurking out there in the dark. I’m lucky in that this obsession is shared by bestselling author MR Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts), who provided the excellent introduction, and Michael Marshall Smith whose fantastic photography once again adorns one of my covers (see the collection Lost Souls for the other), proving – if proof were needed – just how multitalented he is! I can’t tell you what a pleasure it’s been to put Darkness & Shadows together and work on it with Justin; I hope you enjoy reading the book just as much as I did working on it!”  Instead of writing a bio about Paul and his previous work, we thought we’d share some quotes about him and let others do the talking. “Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned.” (Clive Barker – Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone & The Scarlet Gospels) “Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out and serves them up in these deliciously dark tales.” (Kelley Armstrong – Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Spell Bound and Every Step She Takes) “I’m impressed by the range of Paul Kane’s imagination. It seems there is no risk, no high-stakes gamble, he fears to take…Kane’s foot never gets even close to the brake pedal.” (Peter Straub – Bestselling author of Ghost Story, Mr X, Lost Boy Lost Girl, and In the Night Room) “Paul Kane is a name to watch. His work is disturbing and very creepy.” (Tim Lebbon – New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin in the Woods, The Silence and Eden) DARKNESS AND SHADOWS BACK COVER BLURBAre you afraid of the dark? Lee Masterton certainly is. A young man on an ordinary housing estate, who reluctantly takes a job as a nightwatchman only to find himself in the middle of a supernatural struggle… While at the same time reporter Stephen Regis is granted his life-long wish to interview his favourite author – the so-called “Shadow Writer” – and a girl named Kelly wakes up during a terrifying total blackout. Then three fathers set out to rescue their children from a mysterious cult and a boxer called Dixon finds himself in the fight of his career… and his life! Finally, as a very unusual lighthouse keeper begins his shift, another man called Brian Newcomb gets invited to a bizarre evening at the theatre… From the imagination of award-winning and #1 bestselling author Paul Kane (Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Arcana), Sinister presents a welcome reissue of the now rare and out of print short novel Of Darkness and Light, coupled with the other side of the coin. For the first time ever in print, all the popular “Order of the Shadows” tales are also gathered together here alongside brand new stories. With an introduction by bestselling author M.R. Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts, Fellside, The Book of Koli) and cover photography by Michael Marshall Smith (Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence). If you weren’t afraid of the darkness, the shadows, and what lurks within them before, you will be after reading this! Darkness & Shadows will be available on Kindle, Paperback from Amazon and the Sinister Horror Company website from the 13th March 2020. Pre-order to be made available in due course. For any enquiries or further information visit: SinisterHorrorCompany.com   Comments are closed.
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