This killer tormented the lead detective and the newspapers with a series of letters that detailed his victims’ suffering, and describing victims never found. In 1885 a serial killer used the city of San Francisco as his private hunting grounds, picking and choosing his victims at random. The second idea is woven in with the first. Delia finds herself compelled to discover what Shadow wants from her and lay the ghost to rest. This young woman died before Delia was born, the last victim of a brutal killer that terrorized San Francisco and then vanished. Shadow, as she comes to call this spirit, follows her relentlessly, invades her dreams, and demands things of Delia. The ghost she discovers standing at the foot of her bed one morning is different. Once I knew why, the whole book fell into my head.ĭelia has always seen ghosts, but only as glimpses of faces watching from a corner, or faded haunts walking through walls.
Why this particular ghost decided to haunt Delia turned out to be very important. Well, it turned out that the person following her was a ghost. I couldn’t get this image out of my head or stop thinking about who was following Delia, and why. Delia was looking over her shoulder, watching for the person following her. A satchel sat at her feet and steam from the locomotive billowed around her, swirling and writhing in a very creepy way. This book started in a dream about a young woman dressed in old-fashioned clothing and standing next to a railroad track. The scariest monsters of all are the human kind. I drew on my love of history, ghosts and unexplained phenomena, an image I couldn’t forget, and an obsession with understanding how little boys-normal little boys-grow up to become serial killers.
This book is made up of so many ideas and pieces of knowledge I’ve acquired, experiences and obsessions I’ve had over the years. Many of us dream stories as well, most of them offshoots of all the things we’ve crammed into our brains.ĭelia’s Shadow was a magpie novel that began as a dream fragment. We collect shiny ideas, obsessions, and images that we can’t let go of or forget. How do the two hauntings relate? Moyer is here to tell you. In writing the book, author Jaime Lee Moyer was haunted by an idea. In Delia’s Shadow, the main character is haunted by a ghost.
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