The Dark Masters Trilogy

SYNOPSISWhitstable 1971 Peter Cushing, grief-stricken over the loss of his wife and soul-mate, is walking along a beach near his home. A little boy approaches him, taking him to be the famous vampire-hunter Van Helsing from the Hammer films, begs for his expert help . . . Leytonstone 1906 Young Alfred Hitchcock is taken by his father to visit the local police station. There he suddenly finds himself, inexplicably, locked up for a crime he knows nothing about the catalyst for a series of events that will scar, and create, the world's leading Master of Terror . . . Netherwood 1947 Best-selling black magic novelist Dennis Wheatley finds himself summoned mysteriously to the aid of Aleister Crowley mystic, reprobate, The Great Beast 666, and dubbed by the press The Wickedest Man in the World to help combat a force of genuine evil . . .

About the Author

STEPHEN VOLK is best known as the writer of the BBC s notorious Hallowe en hoax Ghostwatch and the award-winning ITV drama series Afterlife. His other screenplays include 2011 s The Awakening, Ken Russell's Gothic, The Guardian (co-written with William Friedkin), and Midwinter of the Spirit. His novellas and short stories have been selected for Year s Best Fantasy and Horror, Best New Horror, Best British Mysteries, and Best British Horror, he has been a Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, a BAFTA winner, and is the author of three collections: Dark Corners, Monsters in the Heart (which won the British Fantasy Award in 2014), and The Parts We Play.

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