About the author
Ehren M. Ehly was the pen name used by 1980's Pulp Horror Fiction author Moreen Ehly (1929-2012). She was the author of four published horror novels, including Obelisk, Totem, Evil Eye, and Star Prey. Raised in Egypt during her formative years, the English-born Ehly was forced to flee the country in 1952, during the July Revolution that overthrew King Farouk. She eventually immigrated to the United States, settling with her American husband in Southern California to raise a family, In her late 50's, Ehly took up fiction writing, inventing lurid tales of terror set mostly in modern-day Cairo, New York, and Southern California, whose characters proved no match for the ancient evils found within the mystical superstitions of the East.