The Shadow World between sanity and sadness surrounded her. But lovely Julia Glasson was too much in love to recognize the signs. Then slowly, with deadly certainty, a terror-filled nightmare-suddenly real-was clutching at her very life.... The Shadow World between sanity and sadness surrounded her. But lovely Julia Glasson was too much in love to recognize the signs. Then slowly, with deadly certainty, a terror-filled nightmare-suddenly real-was clutching at her very life.... William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross, Dana Ross, Marilyn Ross, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. As Marilyn Ross he wrote popular Gothic fiction including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71).