Fiction. In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess—by his art—a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. SHADOWPLAY is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. "[A] journey as delicious as it is threatening"—R.M. Berry. "[Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen"—Gary Lutz. "Wise up and get all you can of Lock"—Gordon Lish. "All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales..."—Kate Bernheimer. "Lock channels...our gorgeous desolation, our longing for connection, both earthly and divine"—Dawn Raffel.