Banquet for the Damned
(a novel)
by Adam Nevill

Description:
"So much has happened here, and it doesn’t sit well, under all this stone. Old things. Old beliefs. Can’t you sense them? Does it all just disperse? Or does it linger for the careful eye to see, and the trained ear to hear? There is power beneath these flagstones. You mark my words."

Has the darkness returned to Scotland’s oldest university town? Is the time of witchcraft and ritual murder here again? In Mediaeval streets, old words are whispered by unseen mouths. Strange shadows have been seen among the ruins. Young men and women plagued by bad dreams are vanishing from their beds. Body parts have been washed ashore from the German Sea. Could this be a prelude to the Day of Wrath prophecy, a vengeful proclamation made by a witch as she was burned at the stake, four hundred years before, in a chapter of the town’s bloody history marked by superstition, occult magic and persecution?

This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do two visitors - a rootless musician and a burnt out explorer - have of surviving their entanglement with Professor Eliot Coldwell, the infamous magician and disgraced author of Banquet for the Damned, with whom mere contact leads to involvement in an ancient mystery, an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it?