![]() With a young girl possesed by the stones and teaming up woth a gang of satanists, the story then traverses between eras to unravel the mystery of the stone. ![]() It has one of the most original openings I've read in horror fiction with its 40 page prologue of a blind ex-slaver who now uses his fortune to traverse the English country-side destroying pagan monuments. And feels like a 1980s updating of Brian Ball's Venemous Serpent. ![]() But despite the lack of sympathetic characters and tension this was an effective page-turner. I don't much like 80s horror as it typically had a nihilistic, cynical, grimy feel to it compared with the estatic excesses of the 1970s. Just polished off The Worm Stone from Derek Tyson, a Hamlyn nasty! ![]()
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