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The Grey Man
Mel Hague
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Paperback 369 pages (this title is available as part of a promotion. See our special promotions page for details) Publication date 30 June 2004 |
Synopsis
The Grey Man is a supernatural horror story, which has been likened to a modern version of 'Candyman'.
Archie Dyson was hanged in 1927 for the grotesque murders of several young women. His antique shop was closed and boarded up for fifty years, as directed in the will of his brother, Jack.
When a young couple, Janet and Eric Baker, buy the premises fifty years later and re-open the shop, the glass on an old sepia photograph of Archie Dyson with his mother and brother is broken and the blood that drips onto the photograph starts to restore Archie back to life.
As he develops, he needs more blood and progressively bigger photographs. He gradually gains control of the minds of the young couple and anyone who visits them.
The young wife spends all her time painting a mural, which covers an entire wall and every character in the painting has the face of Archie Dyson. His control over them is complete and they follow his instructions, however bizarre.
Eventually he regains his human form and once again the bodies of young women are found in the neighbourhood with horrific injuries. He manages to implicate Eric Baker, who goes to prison for murder.
The coast is now clear for the Grey Man to bully Janet into completing the mural so that he may achieve his ambition to become all-powerful and continue his new reign of maniacal and cannibalistic terror.
Can the local police put aside their disbelief in "spooks" and bring down the rejuvenated murderer?
Can Janet Baker survive the lust and barbaric depredation inflicted on her by the insatiable beast?
Can Eric Baker convince the police that he was wrongly convicted and find the nerve to go back to the "shop of horrors" and take on the Grey Man?
Have you got the bottle to read this stomach-churning novel right through to its nerve-shattering climax?
Reviews
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Linda Sunderland |
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5 stars ...Every page sends shivers down the spine. I kept reading quicker and quicker to find out the next abomination... Horror can take many forms and The Grey Man has to be one of the best I have read. It is so different from the norm, it will never cease to grip you... Recommended reading. |
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Eddie Mardell of Doncaster Free Press |
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The murders are described in gruesome detail and there is other explicitly adult material in Mel's gripping horror story of ordinary people facing pure evil. |
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Joan Clark |
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Gruesome and stomach churning but I had to finish reading it. I think the author has a very vivid imagination and a strong sadistic streak. |
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Maureen Slater |
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The book is the most amazing, brilliant, frightening, imaginative one I have ever read... Please write more and more. |
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Julie Slawson |
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An absolutely fantastic book. Very addictive reading from beginning to end. Frightening and very imaginative... Stephen King had better watch out. |
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Julie Slawson |
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An absolutely fantastic book. Very addictive reading from beginning to end. Frightening and very imaginative... Stephen King had better watch out. |
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BP Robinson |
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...From the very first page I was hooked. It's evil... Enjoyed immensely |
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