title: Shadow in a Jar: and other short stories
author: Boon
description: Boon is a musician, wordsmith and professional tattoo artist in the pop culture convention circuit
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  _THE UNIVERSE
  
  
  MAKER_
  
  
  
  
  
  _A_ _E Van Vogt_
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Brought to you courtesy # bookz \- undernet_
  
  
  
  
  
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  _The Shado_ w _Was
  
  
  Less Than Fifty Feet Away...._
  
  
  
  
  
  With a frantic movement, Cargill pulled the girl out of the chair,
  
  
  settled into it and grabbed the gun. A sheet of flame reared up a dozen feet
  in
  
  
  front of the Shadow.
  
  
  
  
  
  The flame glazed through the Shadow. Behind him grass and
  
  
  shrubbery burned with a white intensity. Twice more Cargill fired directly
  into
  
  
  the Shadow shape—and each time it was as if there was nothing there, no
  resistance,
  
  
  no substance. And the Shadow came closer. Cargill ceased firing. He was
  trembling.
  
  
  There was a thought in his mind—a new, overpowering thought. If the
  
  
  Shadow shape were insubstantial, if potent, palpable energy meant nothing to
  
  
  it, then what about steel walls?
  
  
  
  
  
  The next instant he had his answer. There was a blur of movement
  
  
  near the door, a swelling darkness. L