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, Creep Is based on legends of Ys and an old Breton song. In this stunning sequel to his classics 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