John Blackburn

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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'[B]lack comedy doesn't come blacker . . . This is Gothic diablerie with a smile - a very nasty smile, as though a Charles Addams character had escaped from his picture and perpetrated an elaborate practical joke in prose.' - The Guardian

'[...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Boards have light wear. Content pages have some spotting to page ends and some of the fore edges. Tape residue marks to endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ DJ with some residue tape marks to sleeves. Ex Library with stamps/remnants of labels, etc...

• Jan-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2010
• / Thriller
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A series of assassinations in London and a civil war in a backward South American republic are found to be bizarrely linked by the discovery of a parasitic micro-organism which defies the laws of biochemistry.

What is the connection with the b...

• Apr-2013
• / Horror
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"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - "Times Literary Supplement" "A real chiller. . . . The book moves rapidly from beginning to end and Hitchcock ought to be advised. It would make a heck of a movie." - ...

• May-2013
• / Science Fiction
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'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Achieves a delicious sense of nausea.' - The Guardian

'[G]iant monsters . . . products of a mutation . . . bubonic plague!' - The Observer

'He is ce...

• Aug-2013
• / Science Fiction
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"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - "Detroit News" " S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching plot linking the horror camps of the Nazis, the frozen wastes of Russia and the w...

• Sep-2013
• / Thriller
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'[A] well-planned story ... thrilling ... persistently interesting.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Intelligent, well characterised murder mystery with expert secondhand book trade setting.' - Maurice Richardson, The Observer

'[A] sty...

• Sep-2013
• / Historical Mystery
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'This is an historical novel in the grand manner . . . A lot of research must have gone into the work, and the result is wholly satisfactory.' - "The Guardian" 'The versatile John Blackburn has deserted one kind of horror for quite another, diabolis...

• Dec-2013
• / Horror
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'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did.' - Times Literary Supplement

'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.' - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and th...

• Dec-2013
• / Horror
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'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Lots of unguessable surprises.' - The Observer

'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the wid...

• Jan-2014
• / Action Adventure
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"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement

"He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and th...

• Sep-2014
• / Medical Thriller
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'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm brothers did, and some of the Grimm characters are among the ingredients in this hellbrew of the return of the Black Death.' - Times Literary Supplement

'A splendid example of ...

• Oct-2014
• / Horror
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'Even on the warmest night of the year, Mr Blackburn knows how to chill our marrow.' - "Scotsman" 'Blackburn quickly establishes the tone of urbane nastiness which pervades his new horror story . . . murders and much necrogenic excitement precede an...

• May-2015
• / Horror
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Teenager Elsie Kerr is hospitalized with a high fever after being found raped and beaten. When eminent bacteriologist Sir Marcus Levin is asked to consult on the case, Elsie accuses him of the crime, pointing at him and screaming "Devil Daddy " Then...

• Jul-2017
• / Thriller
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When a veteran book dealer pays an exorbitant sum at auction for a copy of Men of Courage, a worthless book about famous heroic deeds, his colleagues believe he has lost his mind. But when he is found dead and the book goes missing, it appears som...

• Jun-2022
• / Horror
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'We daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men' - words from an old children's song, but to the residents of one Welsh village it's more than just a nursery rhyme. A legend has been handed down through the ages, telling of an ancient mountain people...

• Jul-2023
• / Thriller
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The Russians want Peter Carlin for his top secret weapons plans. The British want him for the murder of his wife - a crime he didn't commit. Now he must find a way to flee Soviet Russia and return home to find the real killer - without being killed o...

• Oct-2024
• / Thriller
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Mary Irwin was crushed by a truck. The police ruled it an accidental death, but her husband Bill isn't so sure: his own memory of the night is clouded by amnesia-could he have pushed her himself?His investigations uncover an affair between Mary and h...

• Nov-2024
• / Thriller
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It was only a scrawled note with a drawing of a stick figure and a cryptic reference to the Gaunt Woman, but when Sir Martin Rolfe, a powerful British official, reads it, he nearly succumbs to a heart attack in a fit of terror. Peter Vanin, a Russian...

• Dec-2024
• / Thriller
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A gruesome wave of murder--suicides is sweeping England, leaving the police baffled. But General Kirk of British Intelligence thinks the deaths may be connected to the one case he never solved, the one that's nagged at him for years: John Glyde, a tr...

• Jul-2025
• / Thriller
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A phony Russian princess murdered and stuffed in a trunk. A mysterious message - M.K. will die. A bogus colonel with inscrutable aims. Ruthless killers on the hunt for lost letters from one of the great figures of the 19th century. General Kirk of Br...

• / Horror
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'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Another of Blackburn's gripping, elemental confrontations of good and evil.' - New York Times

'He is bang on curdling form with this tale of a sealed tomb in...

• / Horror
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'John Blackburn is today's master of horror, and this latest novel, about a village gripped by the culmination of ancient vileness, induces proper shivers.' - Times Literary Supplement

'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field ...

• / Horror
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'A real creepy crawly ... Recommended to those who like their thrills chilled.' - Evening Standard

'John Blackburn lives right up to his reputation for the eerie and the sinister.' - The Guardian

'A stylish, genuinely chilling autho...