Vintage 1940s Horror “Creep, Shadow Creep” by A. Merritt Avon 117 Published 1947 orders first time in paperback first thus supernatural witch evil

First appearance in paperback, 1946 [Tuck] though the copyright is 1947. Avon number 117, New York, 255 pages. First thus.

This Two Thousand Year-Old Sorceress Had the Power to Turn People into Shadows!

Here is A. Merritt's masterwork, the best of all his classic fantasies. Creep, Shadow! is based on legends of Ys and an old Breton song. "Fisher, fisher, have you seen/White Dahut, the Shadow Queen/Riding on her stallion black/At her heels her shadow pack?"

Had the last King and Princess of wicked Ys returned after three thousand years? Why were they creating an exact replica of Stonehenge on their New Jersey estate? What was the Mael Bennique, the Breaker of Chests? And what was the dread Gatherer in the Cairn? And can men and women really be turned into shadows and made the helpless slaves of the one who transformed them?

Ethnologist Alan Caranac (who may just be the reincarnation of the Alain de Carnac who brought about the destruction of sinful Ys and its evil rulers) has to find out the answer, for one of his best friends has been killed, and perhaps transformed into a shadow, while his fiancee Helen, her brother, Bill, and the famed Dr. Lowell have already been marked for death or worse!

But first Alan will have to enter the tower of the Demoiselle Dahut de Ys in New York and journey through it thousands of years into the past to her tower in the legendary city from which she draws her name. And then return, if he can!

In this stunning sequel to his classic Burn, Witch, Burn!, the great A. Merritt, an authority on ancient magic and civilizations, captured the feeling of sorcery and the supernatural as never before!

Discover why the New York Times raved that Merritt's writings spin "a shimmering, glittering web of imagination" whose "fertility never seems to lessen"; and why Analog magazine called his stories "crammed with fascinating people and creatures." Here is a classic by the author the Science Fiction Encyclopedia crowned "the supreme fantasy genius."

Will display well. Covers clean, corners sharp, binding secure for now, pages clean though tanned. A perfect (glued) binding of this age usually weakens as time passes, as this one has somewhat.
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