The midnight moon rode high in the sky above the storm clouds sweeping in from the west, and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible and evil. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive. There were eldritch shadows in the house. On the floor of the library at the rear of the house, the strange cabalistic designs glowed with an eerie, devilish light. There was a flickering inside the room as of corpse candles, a cold radiance, a manifestation of the aura of evil that had never left the place, which was crystallised inside its very walls. This was a house of evil, filled with THE LONELY SHADOWS of the dead! Also included in this collection are "The Seventh Image," "Shirley's Ghost," and the two Cthulhu Mythos stories, "Undersea Quest" and "Innsmouth Bane." First-rate horror by a master of the genre!
Author
John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician, he produced over 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint. Pseudonyms (listed alphabetically): Chuck Adams John Adams R.L. Bowers Tex Bradley Berl Cameron Craig Campbell Max Chartair Randall Conway Ray Cosmic John Crawford J.B. Dexter John Glasby J.S. Glasby Michael Hamilton J.J. Hansby D.K. Jennings Marston Johns Victor La Salle Victor LaSalle Peter Laynham H.K. Lennard Rand Le Page Paul Lorraine John C. Maxwell A.J. Merak H.J. Merak John Morton John E. Muller J.L. Powers Manning K. Robertson Karl Zeigfreid
