Lonely Shadows

by John S. Glasby

The midnight moon rode high and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive. On the floor of the library, strange cabalistic designs glowed with an eerie light and there was a flickering as of corpse candles - a cold radiance, a manifestation of the evil aura which had never left this place, instead crystallising inside its very walls...

Genres: Horror, Lovecraftian

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the 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

Reviews

[Alex Budris]

Halfway through the second story I realized it was the same as the first story, and the first story was so obvious and cliched it was nigh unreadable. Neither had anything to do with the Cthulhu Mythos. My cat just fell off the table, taking a half-full box of pizza with her, and I need to investigate. I really hate to do this (that's why I almost always never do), but I'm giving this one two stars. It's not that good at all.

[The Smoog]

A short and at best middling collection of short stories. The last two are Cthulhu Mythos ones, while the first three are traditional ghost stories. It’s not actually a bad collection, just instantly forgettable.