Geoff Cooper and Brian Keene: Shades, An Awesome Horror Thriller Novel

Brian Keene (author of Urban Gothic) has a reputation of being a master of horror. Geoff Cooper is another writer who scares readers out of their wits. Their novel Shades, written ink 2007, was published in 2011 as a kindle edition.



The setting of Shades is Brackard’s Point (a familiar place for Brian Keene’s fans); the time is the nineteen-eighties. An eleven years old boy, having a poor background and being in need of money, skips school and searches for crabs to sell them in a local shop. He finds heaps of crabs in the shallow water – and when he approaches them, he sees what they are doing: feeding on a human corpse. The died man wears orange inmate uniform – he must be an escaped prisoner; now the boy remembers that he heard rumours at school about the brother of a teacher, fresh out from Sing Sing.
Somebody catches him right after he found the body: a strange old Russian man, nicknamed Gustav. According to Gustav, the boy did not find the corpse but the corpse found him…