'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Another of Blackburn's gripping, elemental confrontations of good and evil.' - New York Times 'He is bang on curdling form with this tale of a sealed tomb in a cathedral city and the Destroyer who lurks. Not for the timid.' - Evening Standard 'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.'...