Black Cathedral

At an old manor house on a remote Scottish island, six managers of a large corporation arrive for a week-long stay. Within days they will all suffer horrifying deaths and their bodies will never be found. The government assigns the case to Department 18, the special unit created to investigate the supernatural and the paranormal. However this is no mere haunted house. The evil on this island goes back centuries, but its unholy plots and schemes are hardly things of the past. In fact, while the members of Department 18 race to unravel the islands secrets, the forces of darkness are gatheringand preparing to attack. Review A voice both uniquely entertaining and profoundly disturbing.Brian Keene, Author of Ghost Walk Maynard & Sims know what makes a horror story tick. Shivers Maynard & Sims have proven their ability to effortlessly put horror readers through the wringer time and again. This is real, unapologetic, scary stuff. Gary A. Braunbeck, Author of Coffin County Maynard & Sims make readers accept terrible denizens from nightmare as casual fact. Cemetery Dance Maynard & Sims succeed in terrifying where some other more graphic authors fail.Masters of Terror About the Author Maynard and Sims have been friends since they met in Ambrose Fleming Technical Grammar School in Enfield, England. Together they have edited several anthologies, most notably the Darkness Rising series. Darkness Rising represents possibly the strongest contribution in this long-running anthology series. They began writing supernatural stories in 1972 and have published various collections. When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!