The Shadow
- "The Shadow", a short story by Hans Christian Andersen
- "The Shadow", a poem by Frances Louisa Bushnell
- "The Shadow (a Fragment)", an unfinished poem by Arthur Hugh Clough
- The Shadow, a novel by Francis Worcester Doughty (as Police Captain Howard)
- "The Shadow", a poem by Ben Jonson
- "The Shadow", a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- "The Shadow", a poem by Isabella M. Mortimer
- "The Shadow", a poem by Frances M. Sharpless
- The Shadow (1913), a novel by Arthur Stringer