In what can only be described as a literary tour de force, K. Patrick Malone has devised the perfect two-way mirror companion piece to his award-winning novel: The High Art of Haunting.
A Gallery of Shadows is the tale of Amadeo Medoro, "Deo" to his friends. Senior Art Installation Manager at New York's prestigious Museum of Modern Art, responsible for the care of some of the world's finest paintings, as well as for his increasingly unstable mother. So when Deo is assigned to install an exhibit of a 1950's Beat Generation Artist, Kenneth Moorcroft, he sees it as a thrilling exploration into an exciting new world. But as with all things Malone, there is a dark side and a shadowy price to pay. Blackouts leave Deo lost and alone. Visions and scenes of people he has never seen before appear before his very eyes. Feelings...thoughts...and ideas from outside his experience flood his mind, propelling him headlong down a dizzying emotional tunnel of art and life, love and death as he free-falls uncontrollably toward its shattering...splattering...conclusion. Go toward the light, Deo.
"All are is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." ....Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray.
