"It always starts at just this moment, when the dying sun has breathed its last and slips away from the world. That's when the Man in the Lane stirs and takes his first step back into the mortal world." Will never knew where the stories he told really came from. They just seemed to trip off his tongue as though they'd already been written. But when his new girlfriend Lara asks him to tell her a ghost story, Will starts to realise the true power of his words, revealing a darkness that threatens his entire world. This short story by James Laurence Wood opens the door to the dark, supernatural world of 'Shadows of Life'.