Creep Shadow Creep

Shadows which whisper, seductive shadows, shadows weaving a shroud; shadows with nothing visible to cast them . . . Could shadows have driven four men to their deaths—amid the skyscrapers and neon-lights of modern New York? And what part did the woman play, the beautiful Dahut de Keradel? According to ancient legend, there had once been another Dahut, a mistress of shadows in the drowned city of Ys. She rode by the sea on a black horse with the shadow-pack behind her. The modern Dahut had a father, who owned a house behind high walls on a lonely island. Nobody knew what went on behind those walls, but it was rumoured that strange hounds hunted there at night. Three men determine to challenge de Keradel and his daughter, because they know that witchcraft is real. They know about Madame Mandelip, the doll-maker (whose terrifying story was told in Burn Witch Bum),and that she had a lover whose powers matched or exceeded her own. They suspect that de Keradel was that lover, but even they cannot guess the monstrous power which he is trying to invoke— the “Gatherer” who comes at the moment of sacrifice amid the standing stones. Dr. Alan Caranac has a special part to play in that ritual, for he remembers—or thinks he remembers— Ys and Dahut and the fate that overcame them. So now he must go alone to de Keradel’s island and destroy the evil if he can. Creep Shadow Creep is one of the weirdest and most compelling stories of modern witchcraft ever written.