Jonathan Aycliffe: 4 books

A haunting tale of evil spirits and ancient curses by a master of historical horror who “has the fiction of fear down to a fine art” (Tor.com). In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient...

The English countryside post–World War II provides a chilling backdrop for an “abominably ominous . . . bloody good ghost story” (Tor.com). During the London Blitz, navy man Dominic Lancaster has been injured out of service. Convalescing at his crumbling family estate on the shores of...

Even now, my hand trembles as Iwrite of it . . .A STATUE, unearthed in ancient Babylon during the course of an archaeological dig, is transported to London. Once there, it quickly exerts an evil influence over those with whom it comes into contact; an influence which threatens to spread throughout London, and beyond, and which pits the living against the dead in a battle for all mankind.

A Novel of Dark Discoveries THE L0ST It all started when the gypsy fortune-teller looked him in the eye—and ran away, screaming. Michael was a teacher at a prep school in Cambridge. Barely thirty, he felt immensely old. He was tired of his life, tired of his job, tired of dreary...