Steven LaChance Blog

I’ve been looking forward to saying this out loud.

For a long time, I’ve talked about Architecture of Shadows as the book I needed to write. What I haven’t really shared yet is how much of my life and work is actually inside it.

This book isn’t built around one house, one road, or one case. It’s the result of more than twenty-five years of doing this work. Being invited into people’s lives. Standing in difficult places. Trying to understand what was happening without rushing past it.

Over those years, my research and lived experiences have taken me across parts of the world, including:

• The United States
• Mexico
• Ireland
• England
• Germany
• Austria
• Spain
• Italy
• France
• Greece
• Turkey
• Egypt
• Israel
• Pakistan
• Japan
• Taiwan

That list isn’t complete.
It can’t be.

But it finally feels right to show the scale of what this book holds.

Some of the cases in Architecture of Shadows are ones I have never spoken about publicly before. Even people who have known me for years were surprised when they realized how much I had been carrying quietly in the background all this time.

This book does not flinch or look away. That mattered to me.

There are moments in it that may surprise you. Not because they’re there to shock, but because they show how this work actually happens. How I sit with families. How trust is built. How listening comes first. How the unexplained is approached without turning it into a spectacle or losing sight of the people living through it.

Yes, the book can be frightening at times. How could it not be? But it is also deeply emotional. The fear, the grief, the confusion, the moments of clarity, and the aftermath all live alongside the analysis of what these experiences are, how they develop, and what they can leave behind.

Some readers will recognize familiar cases and locations:

• The Screaming House
• Zombie Road
• The Tri-County Truck Stop

But they aren’t the center of the book. They are reference points. Ways of explaining something larger.

Architecture of Shadows isn’t a collection of ghost stories. It’s about what happens to people, families, and communities when something doesn’t make sense and refuses to neatly resolve.

This is the first time I’ve put all of this on the table in one place.

The book releases in just over a month.

I wanted to share this now because I’m excited for people to finally see the full scope of the work.

Architecture of Shadows
March 3, 2026