The Vessel - Adam Nevill by Adam Nevill, Adam L.G. Nevill
An eerie folk horror novel from the author of Cunning Folk, The Reddening, The Ritual, No One Gets Out Alive and the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel., A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused., Struggling with money, raising a child alone and fleeing a volatile ex, Jess McMachen accepts a job caring for an elderly patient. Flo Gardner a disturbed shut-in and invalid. But if Jess can hold this job down, she and her daughter, Izzy, can begin a new life., Flos vast home, Nerthus House, may resemble a stately vicarage in an idyllic village, but the labyrinthine interior is a dark, cluttered warren filled with pagan artefacts., And Nerthus House lives in the shadow of a malevolent secret. A sinister enigma determined to reveal itself to Jess and to drive her to the end of her tether. Not only is she stricken by the malign manipulation of the Vicarages bleak past, but mercurial Flo is soon casting a ba
Horror
The Vessel - Adam Nevill
Adam Nevill, Adam L.G. Nevill
Category: Horror
Tags: Horror
An eerie folk horror novel from the author of Cunning Folk, The Reddening, The Ritual, No One Gets Out Alive and the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel., A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused., Struggling with money, raising a child alone and fleeing a volatile ex, Jess McMachen accepts a job caring for an elderly patient. Flo Gardner a disturbed shut-in and invalid. But if Jess can hold this job down, she and her daughter, Izzy, can begin a new life., Flos vast home, Nerthus House, may resemble a stately vicarage in an idyllic village, but the labyrinthine interior is a dark, cluttered warren filled with pagan artefacts., And Nerthus House lives in the shadow of a malevolent secret. A sinister enigma determined to reveal itself to Jess and to drive her to the end of her tether. Not only is she stricken by the malign manipulation of the Vicarages bleak past, but mercurial Flo is soon casting a ba
