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When a veteran book dealer pays an exorbitant sum at auction for a copy of Men of Courage, a worthless book about famous heroic deeds, his colleagues believe he has lost his mind. But when he is found dead and the book goes missing, it appears something more sinister may be going on. In fact, someone has been buying, stealing, or destroying every known copy of the book. Bookseller Tom Mayne, with the help of the lovely heiress Janet Vale and t...

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 th...

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 de...

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 an...

[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 twe...

Even on the warmest night of the year, Mr Blackburn knows how to chill our marrow.' - Scotsman'Blackburn quickly establishes the tone of urbane nastiness which pervades his new horror story . . . murders and much necrogenic excitement precede an extremely bloody climax.' - Times Literary Supplement'A tour de force . . . the grimmest [of] Blackburn's books.' - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural'[A] stylish, genuinely chilling a...

This is an historical novel in the grand manner . . . A lot of research must have gone into the work, and the result is wholly satisfactory.' - The Guardian 'The versatile John Blackburn has deserted one kind of horror for quite another, diabolism for divinity.' - Times Literary Supplement 'An accomplished writer.' - The Spectator The year is 37 A.D., and Rome faces a dangerous threat in the form of a new religion whose doctrine...

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.' - Spe...