Sepulchre

by James Herbert

Book Overview

Deep in the English countryside there is a house filled with dark and terrible secrets. The house and secrets belong to Felix Kline, a man who commands the respect of hell itself, until a more sinister evil threatens the balance of world terror. Herbert does not just write. . .he puts on his combat boots and goes out to assault the reader with horror --Stephen King.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 051510101X
• ISBN13: 9780515101010
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

You love him or you hate him

In Sepulchre, there is a house that holds a dreadful secret. "The Keeper", the psychic and the secret serve a force which threatens mankind itself. Judging from the reviews, readers tend to either love James Herbert or hate him. Personally, I believe he never ever gets the praise he richly deserves. I'm a big Stephen King fan, but when Herbert is on form (as he surely is in this book) he is close to unbeatable. If you've never read a James Herbert novel, make this one your first. It's fast paced and intricate, avoiding the descriptive overkill that sometimes blocks the smooth flow of King or Koontz. He has the amazing ability to make characters absolutely terrifying and utterly deplorable and if you like your horror sick and scary but with a vengeful ending this book is a must. It's yet another amazing example of Herbert's highly original mind.

Sepulchre

I absolutely loved this one! I picked it up and literally didn't put it down, its that good. The characters were terrific and the end is THE best ending in history (or at least out of the books I've read).

Not just a masterpiece; this is the absolute top!

James Herbert has done many good things to mankind, but with SEPULCHRE he shocks and beats the outside world 'n beyond like never before! Sepulchre is a pure, fast-paced and extremely suspense-loaded mixture of thriller, horror and the supernatural. The Haunted-Edinbrook-alike Neath and its surroundings will eternally be imprinted in our minds as one of the most ominous, scary and mystique places in all-time horror fiction. The story - shortly, as the cover says, a conflict between the Bad and the Bad - is so ingenious that the shocking and horrifying scenes come to you more unexpectedly than ever, mainly because in such a literary jewel you wouldn't believe these shocks to happen. I think of this story everyday since I read it some six years ago, and it has really had a releaving effect on me. Sepulchre is simply the best book ever written, of any genre.

This was the most disturbing book I ever read!

Truely a masterpiece. He gets inside all the characters' heads as well as yours! You won't be able to get the shocking images out of your head for weeks after reading this book.