Monsters in the Dark

About the Book

A collection of anecdotes about the social, psychology and cultural adjustments demanded, when faced with the task of containing humans in cages. It attempts to portray how virtue and corruption in people ebbs and flows, depending on the pressure and demands of circumstance.

About the Author

The author John Endersby, has suffered an un-repairable mental disability due to his career as a Prison Warden. He has spent weeks in a mental hospital fighting severe depression and Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome.

John has come from a long line of farmers, and lives in South Australia. He has worked as a jackaroo, stockman, share farmer and eventually acquired his own property. Drought forced him to abandon agriculture.

In 1983 he began a career in the South Australia Department of Correctional forces, as a prison officer. The contrast from the relative freedom and open spaces of the bush, to one of extreme tension and confinement, proved to be something of an ordeal. He retired from this position in 1994.

John is now involved with the study and conservation of Australian wildlife, which has been a lifetime interest. He is now living back in the bush on a hobby farm.