'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...

'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...

En route to their honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands, Paul and Carol Wilson lose their way in an unseasonable blizzard and are forced to take shelter in remote Ardvreck House.

But this sprawling, dilapidated Victorian mansion, with its reputation as the scene of violent unsolved mysteries, is also playing host to an eclectic and mysterious group of people who are engaged in a bizarre experiment. It soon becomes clear that even more threatening than the worsening storm outside are the dangers within: The Wilsons and the rest of the assembled company may not survive their stay, as...