Shadow Dance

[Robert Hood] is a prolific writer of horror from all ages, and Shadow Dance is the first in a new series, Shades. Teenage Nathan wakes in a park with amnesia, only to be attacked by an alligator-headed monster. So begins a rollercoaster of a narrative, thrilling, eventful and eerie. Nathan has been missing for months, presumed dead, yet is no ghost; he walks and breathes. Unfortunately he also fades in bright light. The shades of the series title refer to the sunglasses Nathan and others of his very strange ilk wear, even after dark, and also to the name for the dead in classical mythology. The book can gross out, but it has a weird poetry to it.

Lucy Sussex, The Age




"Robert Hood … [is] one of this country's leading horror writers"

Aurealis SF magazine