Mark R. Healy

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620 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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The Road of Shadows · Shadows After Dark - Retro - Episode 1.1 · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

I read a lot of the classics.

We only had a small local library in the town where I grew up.

They stocked the classics.

So there's Asimov, Heinlein.

I also read some Ann McCaffrey.

I must say I had a steady diet of Dean Kearns and Stephen King, the masters of horror back in the eighties.

And Dean in particular had a story that was about a guy who was hunting these creatures who only he could see and they were hiding beneath human skin.

So similar in concept to the shadows.

In Dean's story, the guy was a hunter from the start.

So it was all about him hunting them.

And I always liked the idea of approaching it from the perspective of someone who was being hunted by the creatures instead and being persecuted, you know, chasing.

Around and never being able to settle and how they would actually survive, almost like a survivalist sort of story rather than a hunter sort of story.

We know that, spoiler alert, going to the end of the season, Daniel eventually learns to overcome this and does become the hunter, but I really liked the idea of exploring this concept of the hero being hunted.

So yeah, it was something that I did toss around in various incarnations for many, many years and I eventually

got around to writing I think I wrote a short treatment for this.

That was about 3,000 words.

I used to write these short treatments for my music project and it was a very, you know, minimalistic sort of overview of this first season.

And then I later went and expanded on it and made it into this 10 episode season.

So yeah, it was something that I'd wanted to do for a long, long time.

And it was great fun to finally get around to doing it.

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