Новинки Джона Ллевеллина Проберта

Six Years Ago…

The city of Bristol is rocked by a series of horrific murders, each more gruesome and outrageous than the last, and all in the style of horror films starring Vincent Price.

Four Years Ago…

The journalists who wrote about the case begin to die horribly, this time in the style of Hammer horror movies.

Now…

A Hollywood film company has arrived in Bristol to make a movie about the murders. Nicolas Cage is planned to star, and the screenplay bears little resemblance to what actually happened.

And someone isn’t happy about any of that. Someone who plans to use some of the most creative death scenes in classic British horror films to show these modern
film-makers just what a terrible mistake they have made.

The world’s most resourceful and flamboyant maniac returns…

"Someone is killing doctors in the style of the murders in Vincent Price movies, leaving the Bristol police baffled. The only man who could possibly be responsible died years ago . . . or did he . . .?" The police in Bristol have been confronted by a series of the most perplexingly elaborate deaths they've ever encountered in all their years of murder enquiries. The only thing which connects them is their seemingly random nature and their sheer outrageousness. As Detective Inspector Longdon and his assistant Sergeant Jenny Newham (with the help of pathologist Dr. Richard Patterson) race against time to find the murderer, they eventually realise that the link which connects the killings is even more bizarre than any of them dared to think...

Англия, день завтрашний. Страна в глубоком экономическом и моральном упадке; близится катастрофа. Новый Фестиваль Британии - беспомощная попытка поднять дух нации, все равно что пир во время чумы или оргия на пожаре. В Южном Лондоне специально под грандиозное действо расчищается площадка, сносится церковное кладбище. Из разрытых могил выбирается средневековый "зомби-вирус", называемый в просторечии "погибелью". Вот уже первые его жертвы, обезумев от голода, на кровавых зубах и ногтях понесли заразу дальше. И даже в смерти человек больше не находит упокоения - вирус обладает сверхъестественной способностью поднимать на ноги мертвых…

Среди авторов антологии произведения признанных мастеров жанра, таких как Кристофер Фаулер, Танит Ли, Пол Макоули. Ким Ньюман и другие.

Take a Diploma in Fear.. Four secretaries working a late shift in a deserted office block.. A young man who sees the ghost of his dead father in wet glass.. The British underworld boss who will do anything to restore his tortured wife's good looks. The old cottage in the Wye Valley whose walls are soaked with blood. An art gallery where patrons become part of the paintings.. A shop where you can buy anything your heart desires, but at a terrible price.. When music graduate Paul Dearden accepts an invitation to dinner at his old university the last thing he expects is an evening of the macabre. Over the finest food and drink he learns that the institution has a history steeped in blood. Paul cannot believe that the tales he is told by his dining companions are true, even though none of them are as cruel or as terrifying as the story he needs to tell. In the tradition of classic British anthology horror films like 'The House that Dripped Blood', 'Asylum' and 'From Beyond the Grave', John Llewellyn Probert's 'The Faculty of Terror' offers six tales of terror linked by a framework story, the climax of which will earn all who survive it a first class degree in spine tingling horror!