Dark of the Moon

by W.E.D. Ross, Dan Ross (AKA)

A young woman realizes her dream of marriage. Just afterward, her husband quits his job and goes to help his mother with some business in Chicago. The next she hears, he is living with mama in a small villiage and the marriage was a mistake. She refuses to accept this and finds fear and terror when she visits.

Genres: Gothic

Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross, Dana Ross, Marilyn Ross, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. As Marilyn Ross he wrote popular Gothic fiction including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71).

Reviews

[Matthew Kilpatrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well this doesn't usually happen, that I'm the first person to write a Goodreads review of a book so I definitely need to take the opportunity. Dark of the Moon is a quick guilty pleasure of a read and is as much of a potboiler as you would expect from looking at the cover. Mystery, melodrama and buckets of adverbs. A heroine whose worries everyone dismisses as feminine hysteria and a suitably gothic setting. The mystery does have a somewhat interesting twist though.