someone who evokes fear, as often associated with the "unknown element" of whats in the dark. The fear is often justified through violent methods of the person.
The cloaked figured stepped out of the darkness and slit the throat of the victim, he was later described the shadowmaker, creating fear when there was none.
A Boston Shoemaker, much like the Boston Pancake or Cleveland Steamer, starts of when a man defecates on his unconscious partner's chest. He then proceeds to press his foot in it making a footprint on her chest. When his partner wakes up in the morning she will find a fossilized poopy footprint on her chest ressembling a shoe.