The plot events seem far too weird and severe to be coincidental, but there’s never any explanation offered. Is the narrator insane, or is there something genuinely supernatural going on? This is a trickier one to decide than most though. Without ruining the plot, I can say that this is one of those books where the reader is left uncertain about what’s really happening with the events of the story. You’ll realise this as you’re reading it too, but the writing is so smooth that you’ll stick around for the descent. I don’t want to say much more about the plot because once the story gets going, there’s only one possible outcome. It’s bleak and upsetting.Ī couple end up with a baby they weren’t planning for and very bad things start happening.
This one wasn’t quite as nasty as The Voice of the Clown, but it was just as humourless. I read The Voice of the Clown and Childgrave earlier this year, and after reading The Godsend, I’m ready to avoid this kind of book for a while. I’m fine reading about torture and gore and all that stuff, but I find it very difficult to read about children suffering. This is one of those creepy kids books that were so popular 40 years ago. The Godsend is a well written book, and I had no desire to put it down once I started it, but I’m not sure that I can say I enjoyed it. Here’s one on Bernard Taylor’s early books:
He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright.I’ve done a few author overview posts recently. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. He has published ten novels under his own name, including THE GODSEND (1976), which was adapted for a major film, and SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART (1977), which Charles L. ‘Draws the reader into a web that grows gradually tighter with each turn of the page!’ – Booklistīernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London. ‘Move over, Stephen King!’ – New York Daily News For the seeds of evil have been sown, and the time to reap their wicked harvest is nigh! Soon he is drawn into an impenetrable maze of horror, and by the time he discovers the role he is intended to play in a diabolical design, it will already be too late. But from the moment of his arrival at the secluded country mansion strange and inexplicable events begin to transpire. When Tom Rigby is commissioned to paint a young woman’s portrait at Woolvercombe House, the offer is too lucrative to refuse.
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