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Sepulchre
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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With hard-hitting, jarringly gruesome detail that recalls Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Sepulchre finds James Herbert delving into some of his favorite themes, including psychic cognizance and the dark side of spirituality. Actor Jonathan Keeble has lent his macabre mutterings to a considerable swath of Herbert’s’ catalog, and his vocal dexterity is clinical here, as he seamlessly weaves between brooding atmospherics and intense action sequences. Keeble is grizzled and garish as antihero Liam Holloran, a mercenary bodyguard who finds himself in the employ of a psychic with a secret. That would be Fritz Kline, who gained his clairvoyant powers in a Faustian deal with a Fallen Angel from ancient Sumeria. Kline’s unholy pact has mortal consequences for the psychic and his steward.
Publisher's Summary
The bodyguard. There is a house, hidden away in a small valley, that holds a dark and dreadful secret. The house is called Neath. There is a psychic who lives in that house who is part of its secret. His name is Kline. There is a guardian of the house, and of the psychic, and of the secret. He is known as The Keeper. Together, in unholy union, they serve a force whose existence threatens mankind itself. But now a terrible danger is sensed and an outsider must protect them all.
The outsider is Halloran, and he is unaware of the insidious evil he must face. He will learn of a multinational corporation's strange method of detecting new mineral resources; he will combat men who thrive on the worst of physical corruption; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront the darkness of his own soul. And eventually Halloran will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre.
James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages. Born in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975.
His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.
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- Adam
- 19-02-2016
Gripping, frightening, fantastic
Beautifully read, a terrifying, brutal story mixed with moments of passion, excitement and intrigue. James Herbert is the British Stephen King
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