The Ghosts of Sleath

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Herbert's ‘The Ghosts Of Sleath ’ is a thoroughly engrossing tale of intense paranormal horror that sets down a fast and brutish pace from the very start. With a storyline that is more involved, more dramatic and on a much larger scale than that of ‘ Haunted ’ (1988), Herbert has really gone all out with the sheer intensity within this paranormal tale of unrelenting and uncompromising horror.

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The second installment involving paranormal investigator, David Ash, the Ghosts of Sleath takes our skeptical enquirer to the quaint sleepy English countryside village of Sleath, which has suddenly fallen prey to sudden numerous hauntings. Once there, Ash begins to have his own ghostly experiences, and aided by the daughter of the town vicar, they begin to unearth something far more terrible and horrifying than mere ghosts. Herbert’s ‘The Ghosts Of Sleath’ is a thoroughly engrossing tale of paranormal horror that sets down a fast pace from the very start. With a storyline that is more involved, more dramatic and on a much larger scale than that of ‘Haunted’, Herbert has really gone all out with this paranormal tale of ghostly horror. This is only the second James Herbert book i have read and i can safely say i enjoyed it MUCH more than the first one i read. Which was called Once. Don't read it.The gritty character of David Nash is just as much of an anti-hero as he was in ‘Haunted’. His very human characteristics add such a solid weight to the story’s realism. The storyline itself is eerie throughout, with imaginative and purposely confusing hauntings that initially start putting down the pieces to this elaborate and intricate tale. This scholarly, joyously beautiful volume will serve as a definitive reference source on fauvism. A sweeping survey of fauvist color-drenched landscape painting, the study follows Henri Matisse, Continue reading » Eldritch Location: Sleath is believed to stand on a "ley line" of the earth which nurtures spectral activity. This has apparently been enhanced by Ritual Magic.

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Having that said, I fell the plot itself falls short of what it could had been. Yes, its interesting enough and will keep you guessing until the end. But once reaching the final 3 chapters, I couldn't shake this feeling of "is this what's really happening?"Without a doubt this is one of James Herberts best works. Set three years after the events at Edbrook (Haunted), paranormal investigator David Ash is sent to the quiet village of Sleath. What he finds is an idyllic country village with a dark history steeped in evil. The gritty principal protagonist of David Ash is just as much of an anti-hero as he was in ‘ Haunted ’ (1988). His intentionally ‘human’ characteristics add such a solid weight to the story's realism, reinforcing the reader-character connection that was initially established within the first novel.

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Nothing Is Scarier: Seamus Phelan, on exiting the empty church, isn't quite sure whether someone is following him... British horror writer Herbert (Devil in the Dark) breaks away from supernatural and SF horror to turn out a chilling classic haunted house tale. Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters need to Continue reading »to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of his own sanity. The incidents grow worse until, in the final night of horror, awesome and malign forces are unleashed in a