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Harry Shannon has been an actor, a singer, an Emmy-nominated
songwriter, a recording artist in Europe, a music publisher,
a VP of Carolco Pictures ("Terminator 2," "Total Recall,"
"Rambo"), and worked as a free-lance Music Supervisor on films
such as "Basic Instinct" and "Universal Soldier." He holds an
MA in Psychology and is currently a counselor in private
practice. Harry has won the Tombstone, the Black Quill, and
been nominated for the Stoker. Although primarily a novelist,
the author has sold stories to a number of genre magazines
including "Cemetery Dance," "Horror Garage," "City Slab,"
"Crime Spree" and "Gothic.net." He contributed a 25,000 word
mystery/horror novella to a Cemetery Dance limited-edition
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collection called "Brimstone Turnpike," as well as shorter
fiction to several genre anthologies, among them Dead West,
A Dark and Deadly Valley, Dead Set and In Delirium II.
Shannon's first signed limited edition short story collection
"BAD SEED" debuted in June of 2001. His debut horror novel
"NIGHT OF THE BEAST"--the first in a pulp trilogy set in
northeastern Nevada--was released in 2002. The acclaimed
"NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF" won the small-press Tombstone Award
for Best Novel of 2003. The final book, a 2005 Delirium Books
limited edition of "NIGHT OF THE DAEMON," sold out in
pre-order. These 'Night' books are currently out of print,
but may be back in 2010.
Harry Shannon's first noir effort, "MEMORIAL DAY (A Mick
Callahan Novel)," takes place in fictional Dry Wells, Nevada.
It was a hardcover release from Five Star First Edition
Mysteries in May of 2004. New Mystery Reader called it
"brilliant," also "wry, bittersweet and altogether touching,"
Library Journal praised it as "memorable," and Booklist said
of amateur sleuth Mick Callahan "Let's hope he's around for a
long run." The sequel, "EYE OF THE BURNING MAN" came out in
November, 2005 and was also well reviewed. A third Mick
Callahan novel "ONE OF THE WICKED" will be released in fall
of 2008.
Shannon's first thriller "THE PRESSURE OF DARKNESS" was
released in November of 2006.
Harry scripted the comedic horror film "DEAD AND GONE" for
darkhaze.net fetish
photographer/director Yossi Sasson. He also wrote the novel
version, supervised the music, sang the title song and played
a bit part as the Sheriff.
His second anthology of short fiction "A HOST OF SHADOWS" was
released by Dark Regions Press.
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Harry and his daughter, Paige.
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The catastrophe known as Harry's office, on a good day. Here's
where the magic happens.
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