"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...

'A real creepy crawly ... Recommended to those who like their thrills chilled.' - "Evening Standard"
'John Blackburn lives right up to his reputation for the eerie and the sinister.' - "The Guardian"
'A stylish, genuinely chilling author. Blackburn's devils do not loom vaguely in the background, but seem unstoppable and are among the most malevolent portrayals in the genre.' - "St James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers"
'An accomplished writer.' - "Spectator"
Three directors of the Van Traylen Fellowship have died in gruesome ways, and now a bus carrying children to the...

' 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...