AUTHOR: Ramsey Campbell
PUBLISHER: Flame Tree Press
PUBLISHING DATE: February 16, 2021
PAGES: 256
SOURCE: ARC
The tale is set in Post WWII Liverpool. The main character Dominic, is on a school trip and starts to suspect that his history teacher, Mr. Noble, has ulterior motives for being there. Also, his neighbor is convinced that her dead husband has returned. Dominic and his friends begin to try to piece together what is going on and figure out how it all might connect to Mr. Noble and something mysterious beneath a church.
I'll admit that I'm having a tad time explaining this plot because I'm afraid of giving too much away. Plus, I went into this book pretty blind and based primarily on the author and having liked some of his past works. Truthfully, I think it might work best that way. Dominic is the star in a coming-of-age horror story and I loved traveling with him on his unknown journey. I also loved Dominic relationship with his friends Roberta and Jim.
If you love horror and haven't read Campbell yet, I have to ask why? Although this one is somewhat of a slow burn, it's one I enjoyed each step of the way! Bring on the next book!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes
Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living
horror writer”. He has been given more awards than any
other writer in the field, including the Grand Master
Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association,
the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World
Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
FROM GOODREADS: 1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can’t suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become. A monstrous discovery beneath a church only hints at terrors that are poised to engulf the world as the trilogy brings us to the present day…
MY THOUGHTS: Everyone who visits here regularly knows how much I love Flame Tree Press publications and honestly, I think this is just another of their releases everyone needs to add to their TBR. Just know going into this book that it's the first one in a trilogy and I can't wait for the rest of the series to come my way.
The tale is set in Post WWII Liverpool. The main character Dominic, is on a school trip and starts to suspect that his history teacher, Mr. Noble, has ulterior motives for being there. Also, his neighbor is convinced that her dead husband has returned. Dominic and his friends begin to try to piece together what is going on and figure out how it all might connect to Mr. Noble and something mysterious beneath a church.
I'll admit that I'm having a tad time explaining this plot because I'm afraid of giving too much away. Plus, I went into this book pretty blind and based primarily on the author and having liked some of his past works. Truthfully, I think it might work best that way. Dominic is the star in a coming-of-age horror story and I loved traveling with him on his unknown journey. I also loved Dominic relationship with his friends Roberta and Jim.
If you love horror and haven't read Campbell yet, I have to ask why? Although this one is somewhat of a slow burn, it's one I enjoyed each step of the way! Bring on the next book!
RATING: 4 PAWS
Huge thanks for the blog tour support x
ReplyDeleteI need to read more of his books, it's been years actually!
ReplyDeletecampbell is very familiar to me, yet i don't read a lot of his books. my bad...
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