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Walking Shadow
LIGHTS!
A killer is targeting TV and Film extras on various productions throughout the South West of England. The murderer leaves a macabre marker at each crime scene—a VHS video nasty, while the murders themselves mimic the killings depicted in the tapes.
CAMERA!
While the police are drawn into both the seedy world of nasties and the hierarchical system that thrives in the film industry, the killer remains one step ahead.
CUT!
It’s an A–Z kill list, and the cops are in a race to stop the slayings before the murderer can chop their way through the 39 titles on the list of banned films, from Absurd to Zombie Flesh Eaters …
A killer is targeting TV and Film extras on various productions throughout the South West of England. The murderer leaves a macabre marker at each crime scene—a VHS video nasty, while the murders themselves mimic the killings depicted in the tapes.
CAMERA!
While the police are drawn into both the seedy world of nasties and the hierarchical system that thrives in the film industry, the killer remains one step ahead.
CUT!
It’s an A–Z kill list, and the cops are in a race to stop the slayings before the murderer can chop their way through the 39 titles on the list of banned films, from Absurd to Zombie Flesh Eaters …
342 pages, Paperback
Published August 15, 2023
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October 26, 2023
"His numb mind tried to make sense of the still pictures displayed on the screens, different images of freeze-frame atrocity on each of them...A gallery of gore."
Walking Shadow is a horror police procedure reminiscent of Whitley Strieber's The Wolfen except it takes place in South West England instead of NYC. Grisly murders are happening at movie production sites. At each crime scene, a VHS tape is left with the victim who is staged to look like a death scene in that movie.
I could not put this book down. I devoured it in 3 days. The characters were just so compelling. Stone, Darke, Jem, and all the others made it so you just had to find out what was going on. Each time my "just one more chapter" turned into several more. It really was a race to the finish to find out who was the culprit and who survived.
Walking Shadow is a horror police procedure reminiscent of Whitley Strieber's The Wolfen except it takes place in South West England instead of NYC. Grisly murders are happening at movie production sites. At each crime scene, a VHS tape is left with the victim who is staged to look like a death scene in that movie.
I could not put this book down. I devoured it in 3 days. The characters were just so compelling. Stone, Darke, Jem, and all the others made it so you just had to find out what was going on. Each time my "just one more chapter" turned into several more. It really was a race to the finish to find out who was the culprit and who survived.
October 13, 2023
When I read Walking Shadow, I was unaware of Mickey Lewis’ job as a film/TV extra, as it adds a seriously big extra dimension to this murder mystery thriller, which has both dark comedic and horror overtones. Because the murders are all committed on film sets, the suspects and victims all work in the industry and the film focuses on the extras, those who appear in crowd scenes or lurk in the background for hours on end. There is not a film star in sight and Walking Shadow takes a humorous look at the plight of the extra, who is desperate to survive on minimum wage and dreams of being upgraded to a talking part and avoid being demoted to crowd scenes. I found this part of the book a major highlight, and its funny study of the actors at the bottom of the film food chain to be both quirky and fresh. And I would guess due to Mickey Lewis’s personal experience, also probably very true.
You can read Tony's full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
You can read Tony's full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
August 13, 2024
3.5 stars.
Love me a book that centers on the Video Nasties, but unfortunately the characters were a bit too thin to really embrace the story fully.
More of a mystery/thriller with some solid horror themes than a horror story, IMO.
Love me a book that centers on the Video Nasties, but unfortunately the characters were a bit too thin to really embrace the story fully.
More of a mystery/thriller with some solid horror themes than a horror story, IMO.
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