Harry Shannon

, Male

Los Angeles

Profile Information:

Hometown:: Los Angeles
About Me:: I've 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.” I'm the author of three horror novels, “Night of the Beast,” “Night of the Werewolf,” and “Night of the Daemon,” also the Mick Callahan suspense novels “Memorial Day,” (2005) “Eye of the Burning Man,” (2006) and “One of the Wicked” (fall of 2008). My horror script "Dead and Gone” was recently filmed by director Yossi Sasson, for more go to: www.deadandgonethemovie.com.
I can be contacted here, via my web site www.harryshannon.com or via www.myspace.com/harryshannon. Nice to meet you!
I Am A:: Reader, Writer
Website:: http://www.harryshannon.com
Books And Authors I Like:: James Lee Burke, Michael Connolly, John Connelly, Gregg Hurwitz, Ken Bruen, John D. MacDonald, Cormac McCarthy, Mo Hayder, Robert Crais, T. Jefferson Parker, Peter James, Ed Gorman, Larry McMurtry, James Sallis, Dave Morrell, Joe Konrath, Kealan Patrick Burke, Tom Piccirilli, Brian Keene, Elmore Leonard, Richard S. Prather, most of the early Stephen King novels. Ah hell...it's a long, long, long freaking list.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:: The Godfather movies, various crime and noir stories, The Soprano's of course, and I am a sucker for re-runs of Law and Order, Deadwood and even The Twilight Zone. Yes, the old one. I love classic horror, and have a special fondness for 70's and 80's cheese. Think "Motel Hell" and "Mother's Day."

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carole gill

Howdy Harry! Love your name. sounds like a private eye. Harry Shannon, best PI in all of LA! or ny or miami...!

Jul 30, 2007
carole gill

I love your kind of writing! I am, truth to tell, not quite a reformed horror writer. my true love is horror. but I also, lately have read the books from the movies, like double indemnity, that i 've loved all of my life. right now, finally i am just getting around to sending stories in for publication. i actually prefer to write novels. i've written one, a romance, but as i never read romances, i shouldn't have written one. it came out pretty sugary. although it had its moments. you know when i said you sounded like a p.i. from LA, i hadn't read your profile and didn't know your hometown was in LA! mine's new york, manhattan. but destiny and fate brought me to the uk.
all the best fo now, harry!

Jul 30, 2007
Harry Shannon

I'll always have a soft spot for good horror fiction, but keep digging into crime over and over these days, it's my new love

Jul 30, 2007
Tom Cain

Thanks for the invite. Does your singing repertoire contain Coward of the County? Because, damn, you look like Kenny Rogers!

'Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town' ... 'With four hgungry children and a crop in the field' ...what fond memories of my childhood ...

Sorry, that had nothign whatever to do with horror or crime fiction!

Jul 30, 2007
Harry Shannon

I knew Kenny back when he was with The First Edition. he came to my 21st birthday party. Of course, I didn't have a beard back then...

Jul 30, 2007
Chip DePew

Hi Harry, hope ya had a killer weekend!

Jul 30, 2007
Chip DePew

(laughs) I have a hard time remembering as well, can't imagine how you feel!

Oh, and I might have missed it on your page but you oughta post a link to your Hardluck stories here. (another site I just joined, but have no freakin' clue how to do a short based along the lines of the Cobert Report). Again, if the link is here, go ahead and delete my comment and check it off as bein' "blind"!

Jul 30, 2007
Jordan Dane

Hey Harry---Glad to see you here. We're friends at MySpace, but welcome to CS. You'll have fun here.

Jul 30, 2007
Donna Moore

Hi Harry - thanks for the invite. Some of your favourite authors are mine too. I love Richard S Prather - I wish they would re-release his books.

Jul 30, 2007
Harry Shannon

Hi, Donna! Hi, Jordan. Yeah, it's getting hard to remember all these different web places, but they sure are fun...Donna, will post another piece from Crimespree you might enjoy, it explains how I first read a Rather "Shell Scott" novel.

Jul 31, 2007
spyscribbler

Howdy back, LOL! :-)

You've led a busy and interesting life!

Jul 31, 2007
Camilla Trinchieri

Hi Harry-what a fascinating life you've led and so many books. Congratulations! The Presure of Darkness is a great title. I wish you great luck with it. Thanks for inviting me. Ciao

Aug 1, 2007
PulpStar

Hats off to ya, Harry. Here's pulp in your eye!

Aug 1, 2007
Simon Wood

Good seeing ya, Harry.

Aug 2, 2007
Earl Staggs

Harry, you old dawg! It's been way too long. I've seen snippets here and there about your books, and I'm happy you're doing well. Best regards to you and your family.

Aug 3, 2007
David L. Hoof

Thanks for the invite. Two of your favorites, James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly, are represented by my former agent, Philip Spitzer. I have a conversational and correspondence relationship with Jim.

Aug 4, 2007
Amanda Stevens

Hi Harry. Thanks so much for adding me. Your profile makes me realize how badly I need to get a life!

Aug 4, 2007
carole gill

i see why you don't blog. too intelligent. woah. very deep. i'm deep, but that out depth charged me by several miles or is fathoms? do you find what i find, that you want to come back to friends but you don't know what to say--by the way,do you write most of the time. i do, supportive angel of a husband. first time in my life i'm not working outside the home. but i over do it and my eyes are killing me. working on a series and wrote three short stories (for publication, hopefully) in two days! man! all the best.

Aug 12, 2007
carole gill

A friend of mine who writes, tells me not to wait for inspiration! she'd never get anything done, she says. I bet you're more of a creative writer. i mean it. you want to be inspired. why not? that's good. just get inspired! seriously, think of ways to get inspired? would that work.

Aug 14, 2007
Karen from AustCrime

Hello Harry - nice to hear from you :)

Aug 15, 2007
Lee Lofland

Hi Harry. Glad you could stop by. Impressive background, by the way.

Aug 15, 2007
Krystal Waters

Hi Harry, I see you have Scott on too! He is a hoot! Thank you for adding me to your friends list.

Reading about you, there is nothing you haven't done! It's like you live your life fully without fear. I like that.

Very honored to meet you.
Kristine

Aug 15, 2007
Karen J. Laubenstein

Ah - I saw you on the main page earlier and immediately thought of boats in the sea fishing off the Florida keys or gravitating towards a Western hunting lodge. Often image Hemingway looking like you. That aside, you've led quite a life and had an impact that I've yet to appreciate (just got bionic ears this summer, so haven't yet heard the music from Basic Instinct or any of your other films-yet!) I am in love with music now (except when you can't get it out of your head, that didn't happen when I wad deaf!), so stay tuned... I'll be able to give a fresh opinion on that one.

Aug 15, 2007
Tony Black

Hi Harry--thanks for the invite, glad to meet you.
Tony.

Aug 15, 2007
Cyndi Martin

Howdy! Thanks for adding me!

Aug 16, 2007
Gemma Halliday

Hey, Harry. Nice to meet you!

~Gemma

Aug 17, 2007
Lyn LeJeune

Harry, aren't you on myspace? I was going through one of the book groups and there you were. Seriously. Lyn LeJeune, The Beatitudes

Aug 19, 2007
Harry Shannon

I'm starting to think we're all EVERYWHERE :)

Aug 19, 2007
Roger Newbury

Howdy to you too Harry! Great to meet you.

Aug 26, 2007
Newt Love

Hey! If a author writes a novel in the forest, and nobody reads it, did it make a sound?
I'm newt, slithering from the shallow end of the gene pool, into the open ocean. Sharks are likely to eat me before the salt water kills me, but who wants a quiet life?

Aug 27, 2007
Newt Love

You quipped: Beats the hell out of me :)

Then you must be an angel. ;-)
Turner Network Television has a new cop show called "Saving Grace." The MC is a woman cop named Grace who is almost beyound hope. A Texan drawling, snuff chewing angel (with a penchant for tacos and pizza) is on her case to accept God before it is too late. The show is a riot, with a slice of crime solving thrown in between Grace's sins.
It comes on TNT (cable) after "The Closer."

Sep 1, 2007
Krystal Waters

Hi Harry, yes we know each other on myspace and here. Glad to see you. Take care of yourself, and keep on writing, you are a fantastic writer!

Kristine aka Krystal Waters

Sep 5, 2007
Donna Moore

Hi Harry - thanks for the message. Yes, surrounded by books - bliss!

Nov 25, 2007
len howlett

Harry, I had to contact you, it was the 70's and 80's horror film reference that did it. Did you like the gretat Tobe Hooper's "Funhouse?" I think that was the title, right? And I own my own copy of "TCM2."

Jan 11, 2008
len howlett

Gretat? I meant great.

Jan 11, 2008
len howlett

Yeah, that and "Prime meat!" Drayton Sawyer in TCM2. There's another scene where Sonny and Leatherface and Drayton are sitting around the table and the boys start to party too hard and Drayton tells them to settle down. "This ain't no disco!", or something to that effect. And when Sonny confronts Stretch, the young female DJ and asks for some Iron Butterfly or "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida." They don't write 'em like that anymore.

Jan 11, 2008
Allan E. Ansorge

Got Memorial Day on order. I purchase at a small indy and it takes a while. But some times the planning is better than the vacation. I'm sure in this case that won't be true.

Feb 4, 2008
Reed Farrel Coleman

Harry-
Might be in LA around BEA and I'll definitely stop at Mystery Bookshop if I'm in town. Hope to see you and get you somnething to eat!

Feb 29, 2008
Harry Shannon

That's a deal!

Feb 29, 2008
Harry Shannon

Check out the book trailer for my new crime/horror novel DAEMON, it's up on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/v/qSPS05VCIZY

Mar 11, 2008
L.J. Sellers

HI Harry
That's quite a resume. Congratulations!
I'll check out your trailer.

Mar 27, 2008
Josephine Damian

Hi Harry,

Just read your "Along Comes Mary" in OOTG. Great dialogue and details, and nice ironic twist at the end.

It's an honor to have my story in the mag along side yours.

Best,
Josephine

Apr 5, 2008
karen vaughan

Hi Harry its me the pest --Not sure where I found this site but its a great way to network my writing.

Aug 5, 2008
Harry Shannon

I can't keep up with all these places any more, just kind of wait for an email to prompt me!

Aug 5, 2008
karen vaughan

yeah thats about all i do too

Aug 5, 2008
David L. Hoof

Harry,
Whore that I am, I'm now looking for L.A. crawlers, since only recently a long-neglected horror novel I wrote ten years ago will be made into a film in Feb, 2009. Natually I'm hustling to make connections inside the industry, assisted by a former writing student at Georgetown U, Sean McElheny, whose first film is slated for production. Sean and I will co-rewrite the script for the horror film. From you bio it looks as it we might have something in common, present or future. You think?

Sep 20, 2008
David L. Hoof

Harry,
Given your list of interests, this may be a stupid question, but does your director do/like the horror genre?

Sep 20, 2008
David L. Hoof

Thanks, Harry. Good lead. I'll follow up. Any role that you might want to consider in the long list of tasks connected with production?

Sep 21, 2008
David L. Hoof

Harry,
I haven't forgotten you or your tip on Yossi Sasson. Nor will I forget you as we approach possible production (two companies interested). Unluckily, when I tried the www.darkhaze.com link, it doesn't work. Any ideas?

Nov 3, 2008
roger smith

Hi Harry. Thanks for the add. Look forward to talking books.

Feb 2, 2009