His friend Annie Barker doesn’t share Gus’s dark thoughts she believes in things. The adults seem to take it all in stride, but Gus can’t shake the feeling of impending doom. The place isn’t known for much-unless you count the menacing stray dogs, plant explosions, plane collisions, and regular drownings. It’s the 1960s, and Gus Berry is coming of age in Trenton, a small town on the north shore of Lake Ontario. But the good folks of Gaither can’t imagine what’s coming next. Now, night after night, when the lights go down, graphic images of murder and gore, human debasement, and violent sex cast a flickering glow on the faces of the audience. It really is the ideal place for the ShadowShow Theater.īadon promises the townspeople family entertainment that mirrors their own lives, fulfills their dreams and fantasies, and reflects what really lies in their hearts.

Gaither is the epitome of postwar America with its community Christmas pageants, white picket fences, genial dispositions, and evangelical good will toward friends, family, and neighbors. Īthanial Badon arrives in Gaither, Georgia, to reopen a shuttered cinema. In 1957, a stranger in a small Georgia town opens a movie theater-where the midnight shows bring the locals’ most horrific fantasies to life. But neither imagined just how monstrous and far-reaching the dark was, or that mankind’s fate would rest in their hands during an epic showdown of good versus evil.

They are on separate journeys, mystery walks that will lead them toward a crossroad where the evil of their dreams has taken shape. He helps the living survive.īilly and Wayne share more than a gift. Using his unique powers to cure the flock, Little Wayne is on his way to becoming one of the popular and successful miracle workers in the country. Wayne Falconer, son of one of the most fervent tent evangelists in the South, travels the country serving his father’s healing ministry. She taught the power to Billy and now he helps the dead rest in peace. His mother, a Choctaw Indian schooled in her tribe’s ancient mysticism, understands the permeable barrier between life and death-and can cross it. Born and raised in rural Alabama, Billy Creekmore was destined to be a psychic.

Shadowshow by Brad Strickland