' Tom and Gina took a few steps into the cathedral; then the door slammed shut behind them, cutting off the sunlight and turning daytime into darkest night.
All around them was gloom; the air was thick with pungent smoky incense. Tom felt as if he was drowning in the stench of it and only the ecstasy buzz kept him moving forward.
Tom had visited St Paul's as a child, and he'd been struck then by its cheerful airy brightness. For him it was the emblem of Enlightenment rationality.
But now the clerestory windows in the nave had been blacked out and only the long arrays of candles in the aisles and the nave lit the Stygian blackness. They could hear huge beasts flapping in the air above them, occasionally swooping down to the floor and creating a breeze with their wing beats, before flying back up to hover below the vault.
Once there, grazing and bumping against the roof of St Paul's, their ominous shapes were faintly lit by beams of rainbow light trickling through the stained glass windows of the apse, fighting a path through densest shadow.'
HELL ON EARTH will take you on a journey through the incense-scented demon-stalked streets of future London, in a tale of crime and horror that will have you spell-bound. Agent and editor John Jarrold writes: 'HELL ON EARTH is brilliant: horrific, gripping and darkly humorous.'
Genre: Horror
All around them was gloom; the air was thick with pungent smoky incense. Tom felt as if he was drowning in the stench of it and only the ecstasy buzz kept him moving forward.
Tom had visited St Paul's as a child, and he'd been struck then by its cheerful airy brightness. For him it was the emblem of Enlightenment rationality.
But now the clerestory windows in the nave had been blacked out and only the long arrays of candles in the aisles and the nave lit the Stygian blackness. They could hear huge beasts flapping in the air above them, occasionally swooping down to the floor and creating a breeze with their wing beats, before flying back up to hover below the vault.
Once there, grazing and bumping against the roof of St Paul's, their ominous shapes were faintly lit by beams of rainbow light trickling through the stained glass windows of the apse, fighting a path through densest shadow.'
HELL ON EARTH will take you on a journey through the incense-scented demon-stalked streets of future London, in a tale of crime and horror that will have you spell-bound. Agent and editor John Jarrold writes: 'HELL ON EARTH is brilliant: horrific, gripping and darkly humorous.'
Genre: Horror
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