The Shadow Man Author:Dennis Etchison A dizzying journey to a place where nightmare and insanity fuse with reality-to a place where fear preys on innocence. — Social worker Lissa Shelby works at McKenzie Hall, a center for runaways and children with emotional problems. More and more children are flocking to the center, for they do not feel safe at home. — The children are afraid of di... more »sappearing, afraid of a man, a shadowman, who abducts children, keeps them in his castle and kills them when he is through playing with them. Their parents call him a fantasy, but Lissa suspects the children are onto something.
When a homeless boy is discovered missing, Lissa sets out to find him, only to encounter a reality more terrifying than anything she could have imagined. For children's bodies are beginning to wash up with heavy rains.« less