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The Ghosts of Sleath
Can a ghost haunt a ghost?
Can the dead reach out and touch the living?
Can ancient evil be made manifest?
These are the questions that confront paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's The Ghosts of Sleath, when Ash is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors and terrorized by ghosts from the ancient village's long history. As each dark secret is unveiled and terrible, malign forces are unleashed, he will fear for his very sanity.
Sleath. Where the dead will walk the streets.
Continue the chilling series from the Master of Horror, with Ash.
Can the dead reach out and touch the living?
Can ancient evil be made manifest?
These are the questions that confront paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's The Ghosts of Sleath, when Ash is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors and terrorized by ghosts from the ancient village's long history. As each dark secret is unveiled and terrible, malign forces are unleashed, he will fear for his very sanity.
Sleath. Where the dead will walk the streets.
Continue the chilling series from the Master of Horror, with Ash.
441 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 10, 2015
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James Herbert
101 books2,393 followersJames Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction.
He was one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.
As an author he produced some of the most powerful horror fiction of the past decade. With a skillful blend of horror and thriller fiction, he explored the shaded territories of evil, evoking a sense of brooding menace and rising tension. He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. His bestsellers, THE MAGIC COTTAGE, HAUNTED, SEPULCHRE, and CREED, enhanced his reputation as a writer of depth and originality. His novels THE FOG, THE DARK, and THE SURVIVOR have been hailed as classics of the genre.
He was one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.
As an author he produced some of the most powerful horror fiction of the past decade. With a skillful blend of horror and thriller fiction, he explored the shaded territories of evil, evoking a sense of brooding menace and rising tension. He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. His bestsellers, THE MAGIC COTTAGE, HAUNTED, SEPULCHRE, and CREED, enhanced his reputation as a writer of depth and originality. His novels THE FOG, THE DARK, and THE SURVIVOR have been hailed as classics of the genre.
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December 15, 2025
The tagline of this book is "can a ghost haunt another ghost?" This refers to the storyline in which a boy's ghost is constantly tormented by the ghost of his abusive father, but that is just one of the many storylines in a novel that sees the return of truth seeker David Ash.
Ash arrives in the village of Sleath, where he meets the apparenty psychic Grace. Grace is able to obtain personal information about Ash (namely involving his dead sister) in dreams, and the two gradually come together. However, it seems that just about everyone in Sleath is being haunted in some way, including an abandoned school where children's voices are heard constantly.
Reading this, it felt like I was reading the plot of a horror soap opera, and at times it was difficult to keep up with all the different strands. Overall, it felt like a novel about being haunted by the past, and while this was longer than its predecessor, and had some very complicated exposition. However, I gave it a fourth star because I enjoyed the mental images that the book conjured up with its vivid depictions of some of the scenes, particularly involving the ghosts. The book's climax owed a bit of a debt to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".
Ash arrives in the village of Sleath, where he meets the apparenty psychic Grace. Grace is able to obtain personal information about Ash (namely involving his dead sister) in dreams, and the two gradually come together. However, it seems that just about everyone in Sleath is being haunted in some way, including an abandoned school where children's voices are heard constantly.
Reading this, it felt like I was reading the plot of a horror soap opera, and at times it was difficult to keep up with all the different strands. Overall, it felt like a novel about being haunted by the past, and while this was longer than its predecessor, and had some very complicated exposition. However, I gave it a fourth star because I enjoyed the mental images that the book conjured up with its vivid depictions of some of the scenes, particularly involving the ghosts. The book's climax owed a bit of a debt to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".
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