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Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977)
Bernard Taylor
With a new introduction by Michael Rowe

Book Description

David Warwick, an Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin brother, Colin, is in danger. He returns to England and learns the shocking truth: both Colin and his young bride Helen have died ghastly deaths - deaths that no one in the village wants to talk about. 

Now David has inherited his brother's home, Gerrard's Hill Cottage, a lovely house with a lush garden that seems to promise peace and comfort to all who dwell there. But as David tries to unearth the facts of what really happened to his brother and his wife, he has no idea of the horror and evil that surround him or the terrible fate that may be in store ... 

A chilling story that builds slowly and inexorably towards its shocking climax, Bernard Taylor's Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) has been recognized as one of the finest horror novels ever written. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Rowe. 


reviews

“My favorite ghost story ... at once manages to be both moving and extremely unsettling ... there isn't anything that beats it.” - Charles L. Grant 

“Ingenious and well-crafted - a most satisfying chiller!” - Grand Rapids Press 

“A slow-burning, invisibly seductive ghost story.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1954321384
ISBN-13: 978-1954321380

$29.99 US,  284 pp.
Case Laminate Hardcover
Published 2015


BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 
1941147976
ISBN-13: 978-1941147979
$18.99 US,  284 pp.
Trade paper
Published 2015


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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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Bernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London. Following active service in Egypt in the Royal Air Force, he studied Fine Arts in Swindon, then at Chelsea School of Art and Birmingham University. On graduation he worked as a teacher, painter and book illustrator before going as a teacher to the United States. While there, he took up acting and writing and continued with both after his return to England. 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. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction. He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright. It was during his year as resident playwright at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch that he wrote The Godsend. There Must Be Evil, his latest true crime study, is to be published in England in September.


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