Within The Dark Volume resides every reader's blackest nightmare.
On a Barren coast, young heiress Miss Temple awakes from a fever to discover herself friendless, alone - and having shot her fiancé stone dead. Fleeing from suspicious villagers and attacks by 'wolves,' Miss Temple finds herself with a most unlikely companion in the shape of the seductive and deadly Contessa de Lacquer-Sforza.
Meanwhile, assassin Cardinal Chang is following an orgy of destruction left by debauched aristocrat Francis Xonck, whose mind and body have been corrupted by a mysterious 'process.' Xonck leads Chang to the ruins of Harschmort House, where a mysterious and decidedly vile book is being hunted.
Elsewhere Dr Svenson accompanies a sick woman whose memories have been drawn from her by a book of blue glass. Hoping that what she can remember will unravel the mystery of a diabolical cabal bent on world dominion, Svenson creeps ever closer to their dark treachery...
As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson uncover the devilish schemes of their deadly enemies, so the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume are revealed one by one...
Industry Reviews
Acclaim for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven -- Kate Mosse, author of * Labyrinth * A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying -- Giles Foden * Guardian * An erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure * Daily Mail * Extraordinary. A feat of literary imagination. I cannot recall ever having read a novel comprising so much breaking and entering, spying through keyholes, jumping over walls, hiding in shadows and listening out for footsteps, nor one with so many miraculous escapes * Daily Telegraph * Think of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: its lurid plots, its murky pea-soupers. Now, apply the production values of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, commission a re-write by the Marquis de Sade . . . A ripping yarn * The London Paper * Acclaim for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven -- Kate Mosse, author of * Labyrinth * A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying -- Giles Foden * Guardian * An erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure * Daily Mail * Extraordinary. A feat of literary imagination. I cannot recall ever having read a novel comprising so much breaking and entering, spying through keyholes, jumping over walls, hiding in shadows and listening out for footsteps, nor one with so many miraculous escapes * Daily Telegraph * Think of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: its lurid plots, its murky pea-soupers. Now, apply the production values of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, commission a re-write by the Marquis de Sade . . . A ripping yarn * The London Paper *