FictionThe VampyreWhat was the deadly secret that haunted the writings of Lord Byron, that most brilliant and notorious of romantic poets? The Vampyre offers a truly terrifying answer. Impeccably researched, vividly imagined, it is gothic fiction at its most atmospheric, allusive and thought-provoking. As Byron himself pointed out: truth is stranger than fiction. Supping With PanthersIn 1888 Dr John Eliot returns to London haunted by the memory of a terrible expedition to a remote Himalayan kingdom, where he had uncovered horrors far beyond the frontiers of science. Yet Eliot’s faith in reason is to be tested even further when the body of a friend, drained white of blood, is dragged up from the Thames... Deliver Us From EvilDeep winter, 1659. The dying days of the English Republic – and a killer is abroad on Salisbury Plain. Roundhead officer Captain Foxe fears that the horribly mutilated bodies found at ancient pagan sites point to a more than mortal cause. A long-bured evil, from the very depths of hell, is awakening... Sleeper in the SandsEgypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret ... |
