Fascinating concept, skillfully told with a grim ending that opens the hotel doors of the black book with all the panache of an elegant vampyric host.
A series of disturbing memorial plaques leads the protagonists and the reader along the burnt out remains of the old pier. Easy to see why Charles picked this one as an opener. Memories which are now lent a certain grim chill by ‘The Pier’, a tale which seems to have been written by a consummate veteran of horror. My naivety in this respect has now sunk beneath the memories of waves on Brighton’s shore. I had no idea that Thana Niveau was a writer having briefly met her not far from Brighton Pier in the company of the renowned master of horror John Llewellyn Probert. Lewis here is a real time review of ‘The Seventh Black Book of Horror’. Filthy Creations and The Thinking Man's Crumpetįollowing with pygmy feet in the giant footsteps of D.F.Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy presented by David A.Carnacki The Ghost Finder Wiliam Hope Hogdson The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult.Swords and Sorceries #3 Tales of Heroic Fantasy.
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