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In the Lancashire town of Kempforth, people are vanishing. Mist hangs heavy in the streets, and in those mists move the masked figures the local kids call the Spindly Men. When two year old Roseanne Trevor disappears, Detective Chief Inspector Renwick vows to stop at nothing until she finds her. In Manchester, terrifying visions summon TV psychic Allen Cowell and his sister Vera back to the town they swore they’d left forever. And local historian Anna Mason pieces together a history of cruelty and exploitation almost beyond belief, born out of the horrors of war – while in the decaying corridors and lightless rooms of a long-abandoned hospital, something terrible is waiting for them all.
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Simon Bestwick lives in Lancashire and is the author of a previous novel, Tide Of Souls, two short story collections, A Hazy Shade Of Winter and Pictures Of The Dark, and a chapbook, Angels Of The Silences. He’s also written numerous scripts for radio. His short fiction has appeared most recently in the anthologies Where The Heart Is, Never Again and Solaris Books’ End Of The Line. His novella The Narrows was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award and reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror Of The Year, while the Daily Telegraph praised Tide Of Souls for "the quality of the writing. Simon Bestwick writes with great imaginative flair and an excellent grasp of colour and narrative pace."
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One of the best new horror novelists to appear in recent years!
2012/2/27
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There is a place near Manchester England, Kempforth. It's here that the characters are drawn to a derelict hospital and sanatorium built for veteran's of the First World War. It's here that psychic Allen Cowell and his sister Vera are drawn, called back to Kempforth's Shackleton Street and the desolation of their childhood. Of an 80's paedophile ring. Local historian Anna and her brother Martyn are caught up too. As are Sergeant Mike Stakowski and Detective Chief Inspector Joan Renwick, because there are new missing children. And something else. The Spindly Men, a local bogeyman legend. And all will soon find out if the child snatchers are all just ordinary men.
Like fellow UK writer Gary McMahon, Bestwick has an eye and ear for the grubbier side of British society. Early on when the author is deftly painting his picture of the town, and its inhabitants, I felt that perhaps he was laying it on a little too thick -
- and then you turn on the TV and catch five minutes of `The Jeremy Kyle Show' (for US readers, think Jerry Springer!) and think to yourself, "Oh, yeah, what was I thinking - that's exactly what modern Britain is like!"
Like McMahon, the bleakness of Bestwick's picture is made palpable through his superb characterization. So much so that you truly believe in the characters as real people. The camaraderie between Stakowski and Renwick. The intricate and damaged bond between Vera and her brother Allen. Anna's strength and Martyn's weakness.
As the story hurtles towards its conclusion, the scale opens up and those who have read the author's first novel, the terrific `Tide of Souls', will not be disappointed. The climax may become cinematic, but rest assured Bestwick does not take the easy Hollywood option.
A fine novel from a very fine writer; he has already established himself as a writer to watch of short fiction (with the high honour of having TWO stories featured in the forthcoming `The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four' edited by Ellen Datow) and `The Faceless' deserves to put him on the map of novelists to watch.
Like fellow UK writer Gary McMahon, Bestwick has an eye and ear for the grubbier side of British society. Early on when the author is deftly painting his picture of the town, and its inhabitants, I felt that perhaps he was laying it on a little too thick -
- and then you turn on the TV and catch five minutes of `The Jeremy Kyle Show' (for US readers, think Jerry Springer!) and think to yourself, "Oh, yeah, what was I thinking - that's exactly what modern Britain is like!"
Like McMahon, the bleakness of Bestwick's picture is made palpable through his superb characterization. So much so that you truly believe in the characters as real people. The camaraderie between Stakowski and Renwick. The intricate and damaged bond between Vera and her brother Allen. Anna's strength and Martyn's weakness.
As the story hurtles towards its conclusion, the scale opens up and those who have read the author's first novel, the terrific `Tide of Souls', will not be disappointed. The climax may become cinematic, but rest assured Bestwick does not take the easy Hollywood option.
A fine novel from a very fine writer; he has already established himself as a writer to watch of short fiction (with the high honour of having TWO stories featured in the forthcoming `The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four' edited by Ellen Datow) and `The Faceless' deserves to put him on the map of novelists to watch.
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