In the year 1260, under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom is rising above the merchant city of Cologne: the great cathedral. Far below the soaring spires and flying...
In this Shadow tale, men are being struck down by a strange sleeping sickness. They are as dead; yet they slumber in a mysterious condition from which they cannot be awakened. Hey, is this a new malady that's spreading through Manhattan? Is it a...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” February 1, 1935.
International crooks, scheming to make millions by stealing the plans of the Navy Department’s mystery submarine, come up against The Shadow in a battle of...
THE SHADOW — He fights crime that the Police can't stop, then fades back into the shadows from which he sprung!
MARKED TO DIE
Six prominent men were expecting a share in a glittering fortune. But, one by one, they were being brutally...
The Shadow lives by darkness, gliding through the waiting night unseen, a mocking laugh his only calling card. None who have trafficked in crime will ever forget him. The may sneer at the law…but not at The Shadow. Each generation of evil breeds a...
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen...
Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” February 1, 1933.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
It was to be the perfect crime. A daring heist that would net the greedy mobsters undreamed-of millions. And with...
A sinister criminal organization called "The Hand" challenges the Dark Avenger to a fight to the finish.
From out of darkness comes The Hand to confront The Shadow - and only he could read completely the terrible message it...