Catacomb

Originally published as 'The Hiss'He was born with a great and terrible gift. he alone could see death's arrival, etched in the faces of death's chosen. And he alone knew that the dead did not die, nor did they escape the grave. Their voices could not be stilled ...

From the Inside Flap

He was breaking open a tomb .... feeling around in the cavity. There was a great deal of dust, then he touched what he had been hoping to find ... a bone.It was a thigh bone. He moved his fingers along it to the hip bone, the ribs, the jaw bone, the teeth. He felt around, the dome of the forehead, the eye holes, dry. He pulled out the skull, the whole of the skull and felt it in the dark, felt the brittleness of the bone.He was with death, but somehow for him this death was now his friend. He raised the skull to his forehead, pressed the dome against his brow. The hiss sounded far off, but it was there, very faint, very faint. It increased ... The hissing gathered speed, was travelling towards him, expanding, a deep sound within himself, between his ears, like the noises in a dream.'Who are you?' he whispered, still holding the brittle skull to his forehead.'I'll lead you out of here and to freedom if you promise to release me,' the voice said in his head ...

From the Back Cover

Only the secret of his past can free him from this curse - free him from the hideous voices of the dead ...hissing ...rasping ...pleading ...'Release me ...release me...'

About the Author

Andrew Laurance is a pseudonym for Drew Launay who lives in Nerja in Southern Spain from where he has written over 50 books and screenplays, his most famous being 'Yes we have no Pajamas' which appeared at the Windmill Theatre in London's West End, starring Fiona Richmond and produced by Paul Raymond. He has also written under the names André Launay (General Fiction) and Drew Lamark.

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