The Fall — Simon Clark

Time and Tide wait for No Man ... Television Director Sam Baker, along with his assistant Zita, is visiting an ancient Roman amphitheatre in England as a prelude to the staging of a televised rock concert. Without warning, the site is hit by lightning, and those within it realise that ‘today' now seems to be ‘yesterday'. Suddenly, everyone is back in the amphitheatre, and it now seems to be a week ago. Then a year ... then ten years ... Those who die do not come back, but for everyone else, they are periodically returned to the Roman ruin exactly as they were when the lightning struck for the first time. Unable to prevent the time shifts and their helter-skelter fall back through the years, Sam and his new friends soon learn that it is only a matter of time before all realities merge, an event that will cost them their lives. ‘A powerful tale of human endeavour' Shivers ‘His is surely the most outrageous imagination to grace horror since the discovery of Clive Barker.' Hellnotes