Ben Boulden at Gravetapping has a great review of the new edition of my novel Shadow Games. Here’s a small taste:
“I have a particular fondness for Shadow Games. It is not only a terrific novel, but it was my
introduction to the work of Ed Gorman. The year was 2000. I made a habit of
studying and writing in a library not far from where I worked as a pizza
delivery driver; a job I won’t recommend, but a job that treated me well just
the same. My usual table was tucked at the back of the fiction stacks. I sat,
my back to the wall, facing a bookshelf packed with the latest genre titles
making study nearly impossible since the stories beckoned me.
“There was one title that, day after day, caught my attention.
It was a mass market paperback, black background with orange-red print and the
large white Leisure Books logo—a publisher I miss badly—at the top of its spine.
Its title, Shadow Games. When I
finally relented and read Shadow Games,
sitting right there in the library, its tale of Hollywood ambition, perversion,
and lost potential, all told in a darkly humorous tone, made me a lifetime fan of
Ed Gorman’s work.”
Read more at Gravetapping!
Shadow Games and Other Sinister Stories of Show Business is available from Amazon and direct from the publisher, Short, Scary Tales.
