Tormentor
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00QW8UBKS
Publish date: 2015-02-17
Publisher: DarkFuse
Pages no: 114
Edition language: English
William Meikle is an excellent writer. His prose is beautifully constructed; his descriptions of scenes second-to-none; his characters are generally detailed and human enough in their actions to be believable. But like all of us, Meikle has proven himself prone to the occasional dip in form. His boo...
I received an E-arc from Darkfuse Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Jim moves to Dunvegan for a fresh start after losing his wife to cancer, he is in need of a change of pace from London and the small isolated property he has just purchased seems ideal. He begins to settle into a more lei...
This is a first class example of just how to write an intelligent and gripping horror novel. A good horror story, and in particular a good haunted house horror story, needs certain vital ingredients, firstly an isolated and inviting haunted house, and secondly a troubled even tormented central chara...
This one is a bit of a slow burn as Jim moves to an old house on the loch with a storied history to escape city life and recover from the death of his wife Beth. What should have been a relaxing and healing time quickly starts to go sideways with the appearance of strange soot markings and ghostly m...
Tormentor is my favorite William Meikle book thus far. This is far from your usual haunted house story, and I am far from a connoisseur of Scottish folklore, but I enjoyed this one quite a lot. The beginning is fairly cliche, to be honest. A guy (Jim Greenwood) loses his wife and moves to a house o...