“Bernard Taylor is capable of making your hair stand on end.

Taylor’s chilling novels Sweetheart, Sweetheart and The Moorstone Sickness are also available from Valancourt. This edition features a new introduction by Mary Danby. The classic first novel by Bernard Taylor, The Godsend (1976) earned widespread critical acclaim on its initial publication and was the basis for a 1980 film. Is he losing his grip on sanity? After all, surely this angelic child could not be responsible for such horrors. As the tragedies mount, Alan suspects that Bonnie is somehow responsible. So when a strange young woman abandons her infant at their house, they view it as a blessing-a godsend-and adopt little Bonnie as their own.īut not long after Bonnie’s arrival, terrible things begin to happen to the Marlowes, starting with the death of their son Matthew. But they wish they had just one more, a beautiful baby daughter. Releasing from Valancourt Books, This is Midnight: Stories by Bernard Taylor is available for pre-order now.Alan and Kate Marlowe are a typical, loving, middle-class couple, with four small children. With tales that feature unpredictable and cruel twists, Taylor injects a healthy dose of black humor into the mix with startling results. Grant called Taylor’s Sweetheart, Sweetheart ‘The best ghost story I have ever read … a potential classic’. Taylor’s horrific short fiction is finally compiled in one volume, making this a must have for all horror fans. Author of The Godsend and Mother’s Boys (both adapted for the screen), as well as The Reaping, Taylor is still writing today, often under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as penning nonfiction titles under his own name. Thirteen stories, the complete short fiction of Bernard Taylor.īernard Taylor is one of the almost forgotten horror writers from the 1970’s and 1980’s. Another traveller has to share a room with a man who seems to know everything about a string of murders committed by husbands killing their wives in ‘Travelling Light’.

A man’s obsession with serial killer John Reginald Christie is the catalyst for a strange and horrific trip to London in ‘Forget-Me-Not’. With ‘Samhain’, black magic is the path for a witch wanting to get rid of her loser husband. Taylor’s horrific short fiction is finally compiled in one volume, making this a must have for all horror fans.Ī man begins to feel ‘Out of Sorts’ while spending the night with his mistress during a full moon.

The godsend bernard taylor