'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - "Times Literary Supplement"
'Achieves a delicious sense of nausea.' - "The Guardian"
' G]iant monsters . . . products of a mutation . . . bubonic plague ' - "The Observer"
'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.' - "Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"
A remote area of the Scottish Highlands has been cordoned off and is being guarded by an army of I.R.A. mercenaries and ex-Nazi thugs. Local rumour has it that eccentric laird James Fraser Clyde is looking for...

' A] well-planned story ... thrilling ... persistently interesting.' - "Times Literary Supplement"
'Intelligent, well characterised murder mystery with expert secondhand book trade setting.' - Maurice Richardson, "The Observer"
' A] stylish, genuinely chilling author . . . He can be depended upon to sustain swift, sure, exciting, and absorbing stories . . . undoubtedly one of England's best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel.' - "St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers"
'An interesting ... case concerning a rare book which some madman is collecting...

Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did. - Times Literary Supplement



Lots of unguessable surprises. - The Observer



He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition. - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural



[A] stylish, genuinely chilling author . . . He can be depended upon to sustain swift, sure, exciting, and absorbing stories . . . undoubtedly one of Englands best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel. - St James Guide to Crime...

"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - "Times Literary Supplement"
"He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - "Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"
" A] stylish, genuinely chilling author ... undoubtedly one of England's best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel." - " St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers"
Bill Easter is a petty criminal with a little problem of a 2000 overdraft that he has no means of covering. Fortunately, the bank...

'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did.' - "Times Literary Supplement"
'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.' - "Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"
' A] stylish, genuinely chilling author ... He can be depended upon to sustain swift, sure, exciting, and absorbing stories ... undoubtedly one of England's best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel.' - "St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers"
An inexplicable wave of murders has the country...

'John Blackburn is today's master of horror, and this latest novel, about a village gripped by the culmination of ancient vileness, induces proper shivers.' - "Times Literary Supplement"
'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.' - "Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"
' A] stylish, genuinely chilling author . . . undoubtedly one of England's best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel.' - "St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers"
For centuries, the small English village of Dunstonholme...

'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm brothers did, and some of the Grimm characters are among the ingredients in this hellbrew of the return of the Black Death.' - "Times Literary Supplement"
'A splendid example of a gripping narrative that also connects to a real intelligence . . . has an] original vitality.' - David Hare, "Spectator"
'A violently exciting modern suspense story.' - "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
'Best of recent intrigue-thrillers' - Anthony Boucher, "New York Times"
When nine-year-old Billy Fenwick goes missing on a train journey...

Teenager Elsie Kerr is hospitalized with a high fever after being found raped and beaten. When eminent bacteriologist Sir Marcus Levin is asked to consult on the case, Elsie accuses him of the crime, pointing at him and screaming "Devil Daddy "
Then things really start to get weird: Elsie ages eighty years in a matter of hours, and Sir Marcus finds himself racing to stop whatever killed her from spreading while at the same time trying to clear his name. But the trail will take some unexpected and sinister turns: a grisly corpse half-eaten by pigs, a coven of madmen with a diabolical...