Jack Boniface nearly died one night—attacked by something out of a nightmare. By fateful chance, he escaped. But since that terrifying experience something has changed. Now, when darkness falls, a feeling comes over him, the urge to cast out the evil that would defile the night. The city of New Orleans has always had a history of wild nightlife and superstition, but now it holds the whisper of a man who prowls the night, savagely attacking those who corrupt it. Demons in the dark, beware the vigilante known as...Shadowman.
Night after night, Jack Boniface puts his heart and soul into his music, and, night after night, the people of the French Quarter come out to watch him play. But after one of the evening's deadlier dwellers attacks him and leaves him for dead, Jack discovers a strange compulsion to put on a mask and take the streets as Shadowman!