The only other person I’ve met who’s read any Borton is Chris, but I really enjoy his stuff. Average rating 3.71 539 ratings 87 reviews shelved 1,983 times. Lots of great tension, good imagery and possibly his most Lovecraftian book, Deathsong did not disappoint. This was probably as good as Shadow Dance. There, an ex-boxer, Douglas Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis), dispenses regular.

I devoured all of those books and managed to track him down again under the name Michael Prescott. I became aware of' Michael Prescott' in the mid-nineties with the books he authored under the name Brian Harper. To be honest, I even put it off for a while, expecting to be let down.Īnd…I wasn’t. The Shadow of Violence is set somewhere in rural Ireland, where the green land meanders and the blood runs fast. Shadow Dance was originally published under the author's real name, Douglas Borton. Since Deathsong‘s plot even sounded cheesy, my hopes were low. Read 5 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Still enjoyable and fun, but not up to par with the other two. I loved the first two books I’d read by Borton, but the last book ( Dreamhouse) was just a little bit disappointing. I kind of had low expectations for this book. Darkness spilled out, a river of darkness deeper than night, black currents swirling and eddying, an opaque stream which became a whirlpool, a vortex, a spiral of chaos reaching out with octopus arms to swallow up the universe. In the depths of the starless sky, a door swung open.

Shadow Dance by Douglas Borton