![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Herbert usually writes at a fairly frantic pace and the same is true here. Although the main focus of the story is on the job Ash is at Comraich Castle to do, I found that the little snippets of the residents' back stories added a little bit extra and I found myself enjoying those minor diversions just as much as I enjoyed the main story. The basic idea behind the story is intriguing and the mixture of fiction with real life names and the stretching of fact works rather well. David Ash is sent in to investigate, but he is warned that he must work alone and in secrecy, as whilst some of the residents of Comraich Castle are not ghosts, they are considered long dead by the outside world and that world must never know of their continued existence. There are strange goings on at Comraich Castle, with the normal poltergeist type activities of cold spots in rooms and the lights inexplicably dimming having escalated into a resident being found pinned to the wall of his room by his own blood and innards. Herbert's two previous books featuring parapsychologist David Ash were pretty good, so I was looking forward to the third, simply titled Ash. Indeed, he's one of the few authors to have genuinely scared me, at the point I realised the location of an army of rats in Domain was between the tube station I was getting off at and the office I had to walk to. I've read and enjoyed most of James Herbert's books up until now. ![]()
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