Toxic Shadows

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What you hold in your hands is a dream and possibly a nightmare, but most certainly the first horror novel I ever had published.

There was one other book before this, a crime novel called Street Rats. Though I had been publishing horror stories for some six or seven years, when I sat down to write what would be my first published novel, I decided on a hardcore, violent gangster novel which became Street Rats. In the bizarre world of writing, my third novel, Skull Moon, was actually written before either of these and originally called Wolf Moon. After Toxic Shadows, it was rewritten and retitled. And, to make matters more muddled, I had written six novels before any of these, all of which were rejected by publishers. There’s actually a seventh, too, but I threw it out long ago (imagine, if you can, Catcher in the Rye with a psychosexual predator as its protagonist and you’ll know why).

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