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Banquet for the Damned

Adam Nevill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Publishing:24th Sep '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 24th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Banquet for the Damned cover

In Scotland's oldest university town something evil is plaguing the streets. Students are vanishing and turning up dead - each reported to have been haunted by night terrors.

When struggling musicians, Dante and Tom arrive at St. Andrews to meet Professor Coldwell, author of Banquet of the Damned, they discover that the town’s bloody history of witchcraft and ritual murder may have begun again.

Meanwhile, Hart Miller, a researcher of dream culture, begins investigating the mysterious deaths. Strange shadows have been seen amongst the ruins, body parts are being washed ashore and there are whispers of a vengeful prophecy . . .

This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do they have at surviving an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it?

A chilling occult thriller from award-winning author Adam Nevill, Banquet for the Damned is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacey modern tale of Devil worship and witchcraft.

Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream -- SFX
An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born -- Maxim Jakubowski
Not everyone enjoys horror stories, but for those that do read Last Days and afterwards look for more of the same from Adam Nevill who surely has the knack of creating undertones of chilling terror in an engrossing book -- Book Bitch on Last Days
A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best -- Black Static on Apartment 16

ISBN: 9781035068579

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

544 pages