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Billionaire Max Goff has decided that money could save the Welsh border town of Crybbe. He sets about restoring one of the Elizabethan houses into a centre for healing and the study of "Earth mysteries". But it is when he tries to restore the local standing stones that the trouble begins.
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Phil Rickman is the author of the Merrily Watkins Mystery series.
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Horror myth meets New Age psychology on the ghost-riddled border of England and Wales. Promising American debut of a former BBC radio and TV journalist who did a four-year radio stint focused on the supernatural in Wales. The long-lived village of Crybbe lies on ley-lines of evil energies that once poured from big cryptic stones that surround the town and from an Ancient Monument--The Tump--overlooking the town. But the stones have been buried or destroyed, and the energies held at bay by the peace-bringing nighttime tolling of a curfew bell. Even so, tight-lipped townsfolk will tell radio interviewer Fay Morrison nothing about the village's evil history, even though Fay now resides there, attending her elderly dad, and broadcasts from a makeshift station in a former men's room of the Cock Hotel. But ``the dragon''--a vast Being of Light now held underground, whose parts are various points in the village and landscape--stirs when New Age impresario and record tycoon Max Goff decides to replace the lost stones, bring new psychic energies to Crybbe, and put the town on the map as a tourist attraction. Soon the dead walk. Fay's dad's dead mistress now arrives nightly and communes with her cat and her old lover. Teenage rocker Warren Preece finds a lead-lined box behind a walled-up fireplace and its horrid contents transform him into.... We follow Goff as he hires old water-dowser Henry Kettle to locate the sites of the lost stones. Kettle once wrote a book about the ``ancient science'' with Joy Powys, who becomes Fay's lover when he returns to Crybbe to claim an inheritance from Henry. The stones arise--and then the whole town's rocking as the energy-sucking dragon erupts like a grotesque marriage of St. Michael and the batwinged Satan of Disney's ``Night on Bald Mountain'' in Fantasia.... Old stuff made to dance anew with smart writing, classy passages. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherPan Macmillan
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0333591585
- ISBN 13 9780333591581
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages416
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