'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - Times Literary Supplement
'Another of Blackburn's gripping, elemental confrontations of good and evil.' - New York Times
'He is bang on curdling form with this tale of a sealed tomb in a cathedral city and the Destroyer who lurks. Not for the timid.' - Evening Standard
'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.' - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
For two centuries, the body of Sir Martin Railstone, poet, artist, and libertine, has...

"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - "Detroit News"
" S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching plot linking the horror camps of the Nazis, the frozen wastes of Russia and the work of British Secret Intelligence. . . . T]his is 'must' reading for horror fans." - "Calgary Herald"
"I began to read: and then read and read and read." - John Creasey, "Books of the Month"
"Good, insomniac science-fiction." - "Listener"
With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that...