It was the old, hideous shadow that philosophers never dared mention- the thing hinted at in the Necronomicon and symbolised in the Easter Island colossi.

You have a hideous five o'clock shadow.

Frobisher shuddered, thinking about the hideous shadow he had lived under all these years.

Justin could make out hideous shadows moving into place around Jessica.

Chapter Seven - Past the Dusk Wolf struck his cigarette lighter, and turned the gas up full, and the tall yellow flame lit the room in a carousel of hideous shadows.

The light at his wrist swung wildly, throwing hideous shadows, leaping up and down the rough walls.

The secret road became a cold and dangerous place full of: strange noises and hideous shadows and the King shuddered as his courage wavered.

It cast their hideous shadows upon the night itself.

The horror of the st˘ne and of the hideous shadow over the moon was fading, things left behind in the mists of the mountains or in a passing dream.

But before my fears could crystallize into action I had fallen asleep, and gazed in dreams upon the city in the valley, cold and dead under a shroud of hideous shadow.