Shadow Dance

by Robert Hood

[Robert Hood] is a prolific writer of horror from all ages, and Shadow Dance is the first in a new series, Shades. Teenage Nathan wakes in a park with amnesia, only to be attacked by an alligator-headed monster. So begins a rollercoaster of a narrative, thrilling, eventful and eerie. Nathan has been missing for months, presumed dead, yet is no ghost; he walks and breathes. Unfortunately he also fades in bright light. The shades of the series title refer to the sunglasses Nathan and others of his very strange ilk wear, even after dark, and also to the name for the dead in classical mythology. The book can gross out, but it has a weird poetry to it.

Lucy Sussex, The Age




"Robert Hood … [is] one of this country's leading horror writers"

Aurealis SF magazine

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Robert Hood has been a published writer for several decades, with a long list of short stories and a few novels to his name. Though focused on Australia, he publishes anywhere he can and currently has books and stories in the US and UK. His books include the short story collections Day-dreaming on Company Time, Immaterial Ghost Stories, Creeping in Reptile Flesh and the career-spanning ghost story collection Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories. Novels include Backstreets and the epic dark fantasy novel Fragments of a Broken Land Valarl Undead. He also co-edited the award-winning anthology Daikaiju Giant Monster Tales and its sequels.