"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement
"A real chiller. . . . The book moves rapidly from beginning to end and Hitchcock ought to be advised. It would make a heck of a movie." - Evening News
"He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
When a dead prostitute is found floating in the river, the local police assume it's just another routine murder. But when it turns out the woman may have...

' B]lack comedy doesn't come blacker . . . This is Gothic diablerie with a smile - a very nasty smile, as though a Charles Addams character had escaped from his picture and perpetrated an elaborate practical joke in prose.' - "The Guardian"
' A] semi-surrealist, pseudo-Gothic adventure . . . Read on if you can; I could.' - "The Observer"
'John Blackburn is deservedly well established as a . . . thriller writer. "The Cyclops Goblet," his twenty-third, shows no falling off: it is admirably assured, and as admirably exciting.' - "British Book News"
Bill Easter and his common law...