The Shadows

Stranger Things meets Stephen King’s The Outsider as Alex North returns for another poignant and terrifying supernatural thriller about the sacrifices parents make for–and keep from–their children.In the past, two schoolboys committed a gruesome murder, motivated–they said–by a ghostly figure who haunted them in the woods and in their nightmares. In the years since, the case has become an urban legend.Paul Adams has spent every day since running from what happened all those years ago. He was friends with the boys and has convinced himself he could have prevented the crime. But the past is catching up with Paul when he is forced to return home with his wife and young daughter to care for his dying mother.As Paul’s mother succumbs to dementia and cancer, she starts to say strange and disturbing this about the past. Then, in nearby Featherbank, two teenagers obsessed with the old case commit a copycat murder. As Detective Amanda Beck pieces together their motivation and begins to unravel the crime of the past, she discovers that there is more to this old story than anyone could have imagined.