if you are the sort who likes your horror to be restrained, thoughtful, and horrific in a quietly brooding way, then he is the author for you. Taylor is a more than competent author and is distinctly underrated. polished and elegant prose, an often enigmatic narrative, interesting characterization, a well-developed background for the mystery, and a tone that is dryly straightforward but also hits notes of an almost grim melancholy, laced with a subtlely acidic wit. still, despite showing its hand (inadvertently? hard to tell) so early that most of the suspense is stripped away, the book is a good one. There are no surprises here, neither in the supernatural mystery itself nor in what flavors come to dominate by the end. who wants immortality and what price are you willing to pay for it? think not on such things - 'tis a sickness of both body and soul that you contemplate. there are some intriguing things going on under the surface of this novel as well: Bernard steeps his small bag of precisely-drawn yet often ambiguously sympathetic characters into the opaque waters of immortality to see what particular flavors will rise to the surface. Hal and Rowan flee the big city of London to settle in the beautiful, placid, and exceedingly friendly village of Moorstone disturbing undercurrents eventually become stronger & stronger, and the almost-happy couple find that things are murky indeed beneath the town's lovely surface. There Must Be Evil, his latest true crime study, is to be published in England in September. It was during his year as resident playwright at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch that he wrote The Godsend. He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction.
Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written.
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. While there, he took up acting and writing and continued with both after his return to England. On graduation he worked as a teacher, painter and book illustrator before going as a teacher to the United States. 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. Bernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London.
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