Book description
Deep within the heart of the Moiraean Mountains lies the town of Opum
Oppidulum - home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and it's rumoured
monster. An inescapable asylum stands in the centre of the lake,
enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop Rock island. When Ambrose
Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his
own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned. Rex knows his
evil stepmother, Acantha, is behind his father's 'madness', but how can
he prove it? Only the asylum holds the answers . . .
A twisted tale of treachery, lunacy, greed, revenge and pure
unadulterated wickedness. F. E. Higgins has been fascinated by the
macabre ever since seeing a ghostly apparition as a child. Nowadays F.
E. travels the lands that these books describe, collecting strange
artefacts and the even stranger secrets and stories behind them. THE
BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS, THE BONE MAGICIAN, THE EYEBALL COLLECTOR and THE
LUNATIC'S CURSE document the results of these eerie explorations and
have sold all over the world. When not in pursuit of a story, F. E. may
be found in a haunted house in Kent.
