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The Living Shadow is the first pulp novel to feature The Shadow. Written by Walter B. Gibson, it was submitted for publication as Murder in the Next Room on January 23, 1931, and published as The Living Shadow in the April 1,[ citation needed ] 1931 issue of The Shadow Magazine . This story introduces the literary version, as opposed to the radio version, of The Shadow.
Because of this story's significance as the first Shadow story, it has been reprinted more times than any other Shadow tale; the reprintings include:
The magazine containing the novel sold out after hitting the newsstands. When the second and third novels also almost sold out, it resulted in the magazine becoming monthly rather than quarterly. [1]