Book description
The storm rages. They huddle closer round the flames as the wind howls
in the night.
Another ghost story begins. But is the old house really deserted, or is
something screaming in the darkness? Do you dare to find out? Anthony
Masters is the author of eleven works of adult fiction - notably,
Conquering Heroes
(1969), Red Ice
(1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men
(1997), The Good and Faithful Servant
(1999) and Lifers
(2001) - and, prior to his death, was in the process of completing
another, Dark Bridges
, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep
insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by
helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug
addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other
ethnic minorities. Masters is also known for his eclectic range of
non-fiction titles. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse
personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled
, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the Father of Anarchism
, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: A Life
, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalized by Ian Fleming
in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the Life of Maxwell Knight
, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam
, 1977).
