Book description
Charlotte Nolan and her cousins may not have ended up in the jobs
they hoped to have when they were teenagers, but they've made their
way in life. Charlotte works for a London publisher, Ellen cares for
the elderly, Hugh has left teaching to work in a supermarket while his
brother Rory is a controversial artist. Then more than their jobs
begin to go wrong as something reaches out of the past for them.
What has it to do with the summer night they spent on Thursaston
Common? If the dreams they had that night are catching up with them,
how is the Victorian occultist Arthur Pendemon involved? Before the
nightmare ends more than one of them will have to enter what remains
of Pendemon's house and confront what still lives there in the dark.
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell
as 'Britain's most respected living horror writer'. He has been awarded
the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention and the Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association. His regular columns
appear in
All Hallows
,
Dead Reckonings
and
Video Watchdog
. He is the President of the British Fantasy Society.
