Medium Rare Books.com released Harry Shannon's first signed, limited edition horror and noir short story collection "BAD SEED" in June of 2001. His debut novel "NIGHT OF THE BEAST" was the first in a trilogy set in northeastern Nevada. It was released in 2002 to rave reviews. The equally acclaimed "NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF" won the Tombstone Award for Best Novel of 2003. The final book, "NIGHT OF THE DAEMON," debuted in August of 2004.

Harry Shannon's first noir novel, "MEMORIAL DAY (A Mick Callahan Novel)," which takes place in the fictional Dry Wells, Nevada, was a hardcover release from Five Star First Edition Mysteries in May of 2004. "Memorial Day" received advance praise from crime novelists Bill Pronzini, Paul Bishop, Barbara Seranella and Thomas F. Monteleone and was very well reviewed.

Shannon has been an actor, a singer, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, a recording artist in Europe, a music publisher, a film studio executive and worked as a free-lance Music Supervisor on films such as "Basic Instinct" and "Universal Soldier." He-is also a counselor in private practice. Although primarily a novelist, he has sold many short stories to mystery and horror genre magazines including "Cemetery Dance," "Horror Garage," "City Slab," "Futures" and "Gothic.net." Shannon recently contributed a 25,000 word mystery/horror novella to a new Cemetery Dance limited-edition collection called "Brimstone Turnpike," as well as short fiction to several horror anthologies, including "Family Plots," "Tales from the Gorezone" and "The Fear Within."

Readers can contact him via his website, http://www.harryshannon.com or via his Message Board at http://www.horrorworld.cjb.net/.