Maker of Shadows by Jack Mann
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Overview: “Jack Mann” was a pseudonym of E Charles Vivian, a prolific British writer who wrote detective novels, espionage thrillers, adventure stories and supernatural thrillers. As "Jack Mann" he produced a series of novels featuring one Gregory George Gordon Green – or as he is known to his friends, “Gees”.
Gees is a gentleman private investigator with a habit of stumbling upon mysterious crimes and murders that have supernatural origins. Of the eight books in the series, only one of them was a straight crime novel. The other seven touched upon ancient curses, shape-shifters, the Druidic cults, Viking legends, reincarnated Egyptian princesses, Atlantean witchcraft and entities from other dimensions.
Genre: Horror.
Maker of Shadows (1938), the fifth novel in the series, is set in Scotland. Hired by a local resident and summonsed from London, Gees must do battle with a powerful warlock, Gamel MacMorn, who claims to be descended from a mythical race called “the Azilians”. A pagan people of ancient times, somewhat similar to the Picts, the Azilians practiced an evil religion devoted to "the Unnamed" – a demon goddess who brings the worshipper all they may desire. MacMorn’s house, a stately mansion, sits at the centre of a ring of monoliths and conceals a sacrificial stone used by the ancient Azilian kings, who practiced human sacrifice and were believed to draw power from the shadows (souls) of their victims. Gees’ client has summoned him from London as she is concerned that her niece has been targeted by MacMorn for sacrifice, in order to further extend his already long life.
The novel manages to create a sense of cosmic dread reminiscent of the work of H P Lovecraft, but successfully marries such themes with the classic British rural detective story. You’re never quite sure if Gees is going to be able to save the day, which makes for a gripping and highly entertaining reading experience.
Maker of Shadows is included in the legendary “KEW 39”. Originally published in 1983 in “Twilight Zone” magazine, this list named the 39 horror novels which the late Karl Edward Wagner considered to be the best published; although they may also be seen as his personal favourites, including many that he considered deserving of greater attention. Many of the novels were extremely obscure at the time, and their inclusion in Wagner’s list revived interest in both them and their authors.
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