Shadows of the Soul

By Wade Hunter

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1424125324
• ISBN13: 9781424125326
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Travels into the hell dimensions in small town U.S.A.

At the "Intersection," a young man with cancer faces darkness and death, while a young couple rents a beautiful house with "Open Doors" that changes their views of reality. A young boy brutalized by the older brother he idolizes, comes face to face with his worst fears and a "Monster" living with him. In the winter, a beautiful young woman marvels at a snowfall that sends her husband into a panic because he knows "The Snow Man" at the bottom of the driveway is not going to leave without taking someone with him. "Dreamless Nights" is guaranteed to keep the night terrors at bay for a nurse at a nursing home plagued by bugs and spiders and a shadowy figure, at a cost. No one knows "Cheap Thrills" better than Elvis Smith, and the modern version of Dr. Frankenstein faces his evil and "Soulless" Doppelganger. At "The End of the Road" is a mayor's plan to keep himself in office, violent crime off the streets and the homeless and needy fed on the best the city has to offer, while at "First Light," a hapless and honest clerk must decide his own future. Wade Hunter's "Shadows of the Soul" runs the gamut from werewolves to monsters in the closet with a completely different take on evil in our midst. He offers nine tales of horror with a brand new twist that has a modern urban feel and a dark sensibility. "First Light" is the weakest of the nine tales, with a predictable ending and a short introspective search of a shallow soul while "Intersection" paints a more interesting and novel picture of vampires. Hunter uses the immediacy of the first person to tell most of his tales. "The End of the Road" is the most horrific and original of all the tales, with a very surprising ending. The book as a whole needs to be thoroughly edited and Hunter should invest in a dictionary. Consistent use of incorrect verbiage slows the actions and tears the reader from the realistic worlds he has woven. Shadows of the Soul is a good effort that needs work, from a talented author who still has something to learn.

Different, twisted, and good reading

Reviewed by Ellen Hogan for Reader Views (1/07) This book is a compilation of stories, but instead of being by different authors they are all from the mind of one man. Here are a few that I enjoyed. "Open Doors" Jim and Heather had been looking for a home. When they looked at this house, Heather knew she had found it. It was perfect for them and their pets. Jim asked the landlord if he allowed pets, and while he was waiting for the answer, he thought it over when he stepped into the house. Something had made him feel uneasy and it wasn't the thought of the monthly rent. The landlord said that pets were fine. Heather wanted the house so Jim asked if they could meet on Friday to sign the papers. A month after they moved into the house Heather was in love with it. The cats, however, did not like the house at all. Heather said it was just a change in environment, but they were still acting strange. Heather told Jim to ask their neighbor Chad, who was a veterinarian, what they could do about the cats. Chad told him he needed a beer and he would fix something up for the cats. Jim told Chad that one of the cats was sitting at the end of the bed hissing and woke them up. He asked if it seemed like the cat was protecting them from something. Jim said strangely, yes. Chad said that Mrs. Dee said the same thing about her cat before it disappeared. Strange things started to happen at Jim and Heather's at night. The cats would alert them each night to what was going on. Finally one morning Chad went and knocked at the door and got no answer. Jim and Heather had disappeared the night before with no trace. He called the local police and when they went inside, no one was there. "Monster" Ezekiel's brother John told him there was a monster in the closet. It got so Ezekiel was so scared to go to bed at night as he didn't want John to put him in the closet with the monster. If Ezekiel cried John would beat him up. Poor little Ezekiel could not tell anyone what was going on. The nice polite side of John was all that their mother saw. One day Ezekiel's dog Eclipse was missing and he told John. So they went looking for him in the woods. They called and called but Eclipse did not come. Finally they found the body of Ezekiel's dog in the high grass. His throat was slashed and his tail was missing. While they were looking at Eclipse, Jack Friedman, a football player from school with a pretty girl, asked what they were looking at. He asked if they killed the dog, but Ezekiel told him the dog was theirs. Jack had been drinking and laughed about him being dead. This made John very angry and they started to fight. When the fight was over, John told Ezekiel that nothing happened and not to say anything about it. That night John put Ezekiel in the closet again. This time though it wasn't quite as scary because Ezekiel thought mostly about his brother. When they got up the next morning two police officers came to the house to ask questions about the death of Jack