Henry S. Whitehead

Menacing shadows, avenging shadows, impossible shadows . . . Shadows as metaphor, shadows as premonition, shadows as apocalypse . . . Does something deadly cast a shadow, or do the shadows themselves threaten? These 25 classic stories explore the theme of shadows in speculative fiction, whether tales of fantasy, horror, science fiction, or adventure. Stories include: The Shadow (Andersen), Shadow-A Parable (Poe), The Man without a Shadow: A New Version (O'Brien), The Shadow of a Shade (Hood), A Story of a Shadow (Davis), The Shadow in the Corner (Braddon), The Shadow Builder (Stoker), The Magic Shadow (Quiller-Couch), A Shadow Cast Before (Baum), The Shadow and the Flash (London), The Shadows on the Wall (Wilkins Freeman), The Portent of the Shadow (Nesbit), The Shadow of Good Fortune (Blissett), The Shadow-Dance (Capes), The Shadow (Ranger Wormser), Daylight Shadows (Burks), The Shadow of the Tower (Babeti), The Shadows (Whitehead), Devouring Shadows (O'Neail), The Double Shadow (Smith), A Disembodied Shadow (Pritchard), The Shadow on the Screen (Kuttner), Afraid of His Shadow (Calhoun), Night of Impossible Shadow (Harding), The Third Shadow (Wakefield).

The Trap is an American horror classic by H. P. Lovecraft that begins with the following exerpt: It was on a certain Thursday morning in December that the whole thing began with that unaccountable motion I thought I saw in my antique Copenhagen mirror.