About Living Shadows

By John Shirley

JOHN SHIRLEY has been called a "genre outlaw", and there's good reason for that: he was never a genre writer to start with. He's always written beyond the limits and across all boundaries. In a Shirley story a movie producer can be haunted by the violence he creates... a woman can be frozen by circumstance...a man can turn into a mosquito...a man and a woman can yearn to touch even knowing they will kill each other if they do. Shirley's adrenalized yet artful prose takes you from the jungles of darkest suburbia, down mean streets, and just beyond consensus reality...where the shadows take on their own vivid life.