Get your copy here: or at *I was provided an e-ARC of this EXCELLENT book by Valancourt, in exchange for my honest review. Once again, a Bernard Taylor story gets my highest recommendation! Don't let this one get away!

The tension thrums as the mystery finally unravels and there is no way to put this book down after a certain point.

What you DO see, (and feel) is an atmosphere that nearly suffocates. He takes his time setting up the story and he writes so deftly that you cannot see where the story is taking you. Just in time to delight a whole new generation of horror readers!īernard Taylor's work is surprisingly well written. Somehow I missed Bernard Taylors' works back in the day, but thanks to Valancourt Books and the phenomenon of a book written by Grady Hendrix and Will Erickson, PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, many of these older books are coming back into print. Will he finish the portrait and collect his generous fee? Will he happily return home afterward and resume life as he previously knew it? You'll have to read this to find out!īooks like these are the reason I got into the horror genre in the first place. Young Catherine, his model for the portrait seems a bit.off as well. Upon his arrival, though, his surroundings, the family and the servants all begin to unnerve him. Thomas is offered quite a bit of money to leave his family and business to come do this and his every need will be met while he is there. There Must Be Evil, his latest true crime study, is to be published in England in September.īernard Taylor-I LOVE the guy! SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is still my favorite from him, (and one of my favorite quiet horror tales of all time), but THE REAPING is another fine example of horror at its best!Īn artist and father is invited out to a country manor to paint a portrait. It was during his year as resident playwright at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch that he wrote The Godsend. He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. He has published ten novels under his own name, including The Godsend (1976), which was adapted for a major film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977), which Charles L. While there, he took up acting and writing and continued with both after his return to England. On graduation he worked as a teacher, painter and book illustrator before going as a teacher to the United States. Following active service in Egypt in the Royal Air Force, he studied Fine Arts in Swindon, then at Chelsea School of Art and Birmingham University. Bernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London.

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