Лучшие книги Джонатана Эйклиффа

Если Сила Света отняла у тебя все, чем дорожил ты в жизни, - кому и чему ты станешь служить, чтобы отомстить?.. Только - Силе Тьмы. Только - Силе Смерти! И тогда ты отправишься в путь, в путь, где ждет тебя твой новый учитель - проклятый черный маг.

Charles and Laura are a young, happily married couple inhabiting the privileged world of Cambridge academia. Brimming with excitement, Charles sets off with his daughter Naomi on a Christmas Eve shopping trip to London. But, by the end of the day, all Charles and his wife have left are cups of tea and police sympathy. For Naomi, their beautiful, angelic only child, has disappeared. Days later her murdered body is discovered.

But is she dead?

In a howling, bumping story of past and present day hell, Jonathan Aycliffe's haunting psychological masterpiece is guaranteed to make you sink to untold depths of teeth-shaking terror.

Академик Пембрук-колледжа Чарльз Хилленбранд вспоминает свою жизнь и брак с Лорой, которая бросила работу в музее Фицуильяма после рождения их дочери Наоми. В канун Рождества 1970 года Чарльз взял свою четырехлетнюю дочь в поездку по магазинам из Кембриджа в Лондон на поезде. Наоми исчезла в магазине игрушек Хэмли, а через несколько дней ее изуродованное тело было обнаружено в Спиталфилдсе. Но Наоми не покоится с миром, и Чарльз и Лора преследуются ее присутствием, когда следуют другие убийства. Полицейского, ведущего расследование, находят с перерезанным горлом в склепе церкви близ Брик-лейн, затем убивают фотографа прессы, который показывал Чарльзу тревожные образы на сделанных им фотографиях, а части его тела находят разбросанными по аллее Спиталфилдов...

Some things never die. They just ... vanish.
Peter and Sarah's marriage has reached an impasse; their holiday in beautiful Cornwall is chosen to mend old wounds and bandage past pain. The house they go to has space - space for their writing, their painting, and their reconciliation. It has space too for its own memories and its own unforgettable horrors. but they are not to know that.
When the locals are less than friendly than they might be and when the house sighs with its secrets, the sands of their marriage shift. and then Sarah vanishes and Peter is left alone. Or is he?

At the end of the nineteenth century Charlotte Metcalf is a child of good fortune: a prosperous father, a loving mother, a loved brother all cocoon her from the fears of the outside world. But then her father dies. and she is plunged into poverty and the workhouse becomes her miserable home. Yet Charlotte escapes, determined to find her lost brother, and her search brings her to Barras Hall, home of unknown relations where fine clothes, good food and wealth seem to promise her all she desires. But at night the horror begins - of sound and sense, surpassing all earthy terror. And Charlotte finds that daytime comfort comes at a price...and she must fulfil her terrible destiny. Praise for Jonathan Aycliffe: "Aycliffe has a fine touch" Independent "Aycliffe conjures up a feeling of dread that deepens with each unsettling incident" Time Out "Naomi's Room must rank among the finest of English ghost stories. They certainly don't come more dark or fearsome." Newcastle Evening Chronicle.

Some things are best left undisturbed . . .

In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church’s crumbling walls. The moment the workman raised the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escaped. At a loss to explain the unsettling noises and frightening visions that begin to plague the church, Atherton calls upon fellow antiquarian and Cambridge professor Richard Asquith to help investigate the strange events that began in the wake of the tomb’s disturbance.

The two discover tantalizing hints of whom and what may have been laid to rest in the tomb, but the unforeseen circumstances force Asquith to give up his inquiries and leave the small village of Thornham behind. Asquith tries to put the frightening experiences behind him and focus on his new wife and family. But death and disappearances abound, and Robert Asquith soon has no choice but to confront the darkness that has followed him from that ancient church into his own home.

English novelist Jonathan Aycliffe has mastered the classic English ghost story, and A Shadow on the Wall, nominated in 2000 for the International Horror Guild Award, is sure to both mesmerize and haunt you.

Чарльз и Лора молоды и счастливы в браке. Оба принадлежат к привилегированному обществу Кембриджской академии. Незадолго до Рождества, Чарльз с дочерью, Наоми, отправляется на распродажу, в Лондон. Но к концу дня все, что остаётся ему и его жене, Лоре — чашка чая и сочувствие полиции. Потому что Наоми — их единственная и прекрасная, как ангел, дочь пропала, а днем позже было найдено ее тело.
Но насколько она мертва?
Завораживающая история Джонатана Эйклиффа повествует о прошлом и настоящем, днях, наполненных невыносимой агонией. Психологический шедевр гарантированно заставит вас погрузиться в леденящий до глубины души ужас.