Name: The Vessel
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Author: Adam Nevill
ISBN: 9781739788643

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adam Nevill

Publisher

Ritual Limited

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781739788643

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "The Vessel"

An eerie folk horror novel from the author of Cunning Folk, The Reddening, The Ritual, No One Gets Out Alive and the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.'Struggling with money, raising a child alone and fleeing a volatile ex, Jess McMachen accepts a job caring for an elderly patient. Flo Gardner - a disturbed shut-in and invalid. But if Jess can hold this job down, she and her daughter, Izzy, can begin a new life.Flo's vast home, Nerthus House, may resemble a stately vicarage in an idyllic village, but the labyrinthine interior is a dark, cluttered warren filled with pagan artefacts. And Nerthus House lives in the shadow of a malevolent secret. A sinister enigma determined to reveal itself to Jess and to drive her to the end of her tether. Not only is she stricken by the malign manipulation of the Vicarage's bleak past, but mercurial Flo is soon casting a baleful influence over young Izzy. What appeared to be a routine job soon becomes a battle for Jess's sanity and the control of her child.It's as if an ancient ritual was triggered when Jess crossed the threshold of the vicarage. A rite leading her and Izzy to a terrifying critical mass, where all will be lost or saved."You don't read an Adam Nevill horror novel: you live it" The Guardian'In refining the tale of supernatural horror to its essence, M.R. James increased the terror, and among his living inheritors is Adam Nevill' - Ramsey Campbell

Adam Nevill

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Adam L. G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1969 and was raised in that same country and in New Zealand. He is also the author of Apartment 16 and Banquet for the Damned, an original supernatural horror novel inspired by M. R. James and the tradition of the English ghost story. He has held various jobs throughout his life, including that of a night watchman and a day porter from 2000 to 2004 in the exclusive apartments of West London.

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