![]() ![]() This edition is limited to just 300 copies, each signed by Schow, F. Paul Wilson, new artwork by David Ho, a new afterword by Schow, and the original short story, as well as images of old editions of the book. This edition features a new introduction by F. Amid the inexplicable terrors of a building that seems weirdly animate and of some loathsome monstrosity lurking in the bottom of the ventilation shaft, the pursuit of Cruz, Jonathan, and Jamaica by Bauhaus and his minions seems by turns insignificant and chillingly immediate. Schow’s The Shaft features a unique mingling of supernatural horror with the very real dangers involved in drug-running, creating a uniquely compelling atmosphere. When Cruz and Jamaica are forced to drop two kilos of cocaine down a ventilation shaft in the rooming-house to escape a police raid, strange things begin to happen.ĭavid J. There he meets Jonathan, a yuppie struggling to get over a failed romance, and Jamaica, a prostitute on the payroll of the drug kingpin Bauhaus. He holes up in a decrepit rooming-house, the Kenilworth Arms, in the dead of winter. A low-level drug runner named Cruz finds himself exiled from sunny Miami to frigid Chicago. ![]()
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