Evil is watching, waiting. One door is all that stops hoards of demons being unleashed on the world. The door is weakening. Once a generation it must be sealed again, and there is only one way. With blood. Loner Jake Harker’s world of boring school and getting lost in horror comics will never be the same again.

Review: It is easy to see why Oxford University Press are so excited about William Hussey’s Witchfinder that they are pushing it to publication at record speed. A page turner that lovers of horror and dark fiction will eat up, the first volume of Dawn of the Demontide has it all: well-fleshed believable characters, evil creatures of the underworld who like to feed on same, a beautiful girl who may not be what she seems. Adults who are convinced that ends justify the means no matter what. Impossible odds. An ordinary boy who discovers he isn’t so ordinary, and tries to find another way. Not to mention, exploding poisonous toads. Tension builds from one plot twist to another and the action is unrelenting.

Check out the trailer on the terrifying Witchfinder website: http://www.witchfinderbooks.co.uk/   There is also a reading by the author, and a competition to win signed copies or even a pocket sized video camera (closes 01 July 2010). Caution: this is not for sensitive or younger readers. Read it with the lights on. Available in March 2010, if you dare. Book 2, Gallows at Twilight due out in Jan 2011, and book 3, The Last Nightfall in September 2011.

2010-01-29