num_pages: 182
description: Recipe for terror. Take one innocent child with the bizarre power to release man's darkest, and most hideously violent, nature. Add a lonely teacher who dreams of demonic possession in the arms of a vampire lover.Stir in a foul, nameless monstrosity born of a strange an unearthly rainstorm.Combine ingredients in one horrifying volume.Mix well—and scream..."Introduction" (Shadows 8) • essay by Charles L. Grant."Everything's Going to Be All Right" • short story by Gene DeWeese."Cycles" • short story by Kim Antieau."The Tuckahoe" • short story by Nancy Etchemendy."Between the Windows of the Sea" • short story by Jack Dann."The Battering" • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem."The Shadow of a Hawk" • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman."Toy" • short story by Bill Pronzini."The Pooka" • short story by Peter Tremayne."The Man Who Loved Water" • short story by Craig Shaw Gardner."Blood Gothic" • short story by Nancy Holder."Sand" • short story by Alan Ryan."The Blue Man" • short story by Terry L. Parkinson."A Demon in Rosewood" • short story by Sharon Webb."Wish" • short story by Al Sarrantonio."145" • The Blind Man • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson."149" • A Night at the Head of a Grave • short story by Thomas Sullivan."159" • Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? • novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
language: English
title: Shadows 8
titlecomplete: Shadows 8
genres: Anthologies, Short Stories, Horror
ratings_count: 40
publisher: Berkley Books