‘Grabs from the very first page, refuses to be laid aside, and carries the hapless reader, exhausted and wrung out, to the very last sentence’ –
Guardian
‘Nevill presents us with nightmare image after nightmare image, and sells his horrors with admirable clarity and simplicity . . . a first-rate literary bogeyman’ –
SFX
‘Not since reading Stephen King’s It has a book managed to instill such a feeling of fear and disquiet in me’ –
Fantasy Book Review
‘A deliciously unsettling and skin-crawling read, one filled with an ever-increasing sense of dread and an incessant and insistent pull towards the darkness’ –
SFRevu.com