A television crew arrives at Harrowfell hoping to turn a recent tragedy into compelling paranormal entertainment.

Producer Liv Keane wants something usable. Presenter Elliot Marsh wants something sensational.

When Elliot decides to manufacture evidence on the moor, the deception seems small enough to control.

Then the real Hunt crosses the same ground.

Fake hoofprints and impossible ones appear side by side, and Liv is forced to confront not only what she witnessed, but what she is willing to do with it.

The False Track is a standalone Shadow Casebook short story set after the events of The Huntsman’s Due, blending supernatural mystery, moral compromise and the eerie indifference of something ancient moving through the modern world.

"The False Track"

by Benjamin L. Smith