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Hiding From Shadows
Every night is a personal battle to survive until morning for Ellen. An unseen menace lurks in the shadows outside her home. Will it strike without mercy once she lets her guard down?
Ellen wanted more than to spend her life in a backwater Louisiana town. She seeks to leave the bayou and travel the world while fulfilling her ambitions. But a troubling past has swallowed that future. Nearly a year has passed since she last laid eyes on Ray. He swore to return and exact revenge against Ellen for ending their unhappy marriage. A nightly vigil awaits when sunlight yields to moonlight. No one can help. Armed with her trusted bat, Ellen must stand alone as an inevitable confrontation with her darkest fear looms on the horizon.
Hiding From Shadows is an unsettling ghost story from the mind of John Coon. If you like heart-pounding scares and unexpected twists, you'll love this chilling and terrifying small-town horror short story set in the Deer Falls universe.
Ellen wanted more than to spend her life in a backwater Louisiana town. She seeks to leave the bayou and travel the world while fulfilling her ambitions. But a troubling past has swallowed that future. Nearly a year has passed since she last laid eyes on Ray. He swore to return and exact revenge against Ellen for ending their unhappy marriage. A nightly vigil awaits when sunlight yields to moonlight. No one can help. Armed with her trusted bat, Ellen must stand alone as an inevitable confrontation with her darkest fear looms on the horizon.
Hiding From Shadows is an unsettling ghost story from the mind of John Coon. If you like heart-pounding scares and unexpected twists, you'll love this chilling and terrifying small-town horror short story set in the Deer Falls universe.
33 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 13, 2023
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May 17, 2023
Super short novella, in fact it’s prob one of the shortest books I’ve ever read at 24 pages! With that being said it’s still had good structure and storyline and gripped me.
October 15, 2025
Hiding From Shadows is a compact but chilling descent into fear, solitude, and psychological endurance. In just over thirty pages, John Coon manages to capture the full weight of dread that comes from knowing your worst nightmare might be waiting right outside your door. Ellen’s nightly battle against an unseen menace in the Louisiana bayou feels both deeply human and hauntingly supernatural.
What makes this short horror tale so compelling isn’t just the threat it’s the silence between those threats. Coon’s storytelling thrives in the tension of what we don’t see, letting the quiet dread sink in until it’s nearly unbearable. Beneath the ghost story lies a deeper, emotional resonance: the lingering trauma of abuse, the paralysis of fear, and the fragile hope that refuses to die even when the darkness closes in.
Fans of atmospheric horror where every shadow hides both memory and menace will find Hiding From Shadows unforgettable. John Coon’s storytelling reminds us that horror doesn’t always need to be loud or bloody to be devastating. Sometimes, all it takes is a woman, a bat, and the long hours of the night.
What makes this short horror tale so compelling isn’t just the threat it’s the silence between those threats. Coon’s storytelling thrives in the tension of what we don’t see, letting the quiet dread sink in until it’s nearly unbearable. Beneath the ghost story lies a deeper, emotional resonance: the lingering trauma of abuse, the paralysis of fear, and the fragile hope that refuses to die even when the darkness closes in.
Fans of atmospheric horror where every shadow hides both memory and menace will find Hiding From Shadows unforgettable. John Coon’s storytelling reminds us that horror doesn’t always need to be loud or bloody to be devastating. Sometimes, all it takes is a woman, a bat, and the long hours of the night.
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