Description: "It is, in my opinion, way beyond good. The author has been likened to Richard Laymon and Dean Koontz by other reviewers and these comparisons are pretty much on the mark. Right from the first few pages it is foot to the floor stuff with pretty much no let up till you reach the end. This is proper horror writing, the stuff that makes you wince when you see what's coming." -- The Terror Tree "Turner by Karl Drinkwater is a horror story like no other. The story is an attention-grabber right from the word go, and the more I read it, the harder it became to put it down. The first time I read about the village it struck me that it was like something out of a psychological horror story and, straightaway, I found myself waiting with bated breath to see what was going to happen. Excellent book." -- Readers' Favorite "The Welsh setting is so lifelike and fleshed out that I could almost taste the salty air. Once all the chess pieces were in position, the story was intense, dramatic, and shocking. Well-done horror is all about setting up an atmosphere of anxiety and hopelessness; TURNER smothers the reader in both in the opening chapters. It's not 'if' someone is going to die, it's 'if' someone will survive." -- Lizzy's Dark Fiction "From the first page, Drinkwater's debut novel glides the reader in with a creeping sense of dread of village inwardness and suspicion seen in 'The Wicker Man' and 'An American Werewolf in London' and pretty much every Hammer Horror film. The highlight of the novel is the Lord of island, a crazed dictator whose infernal madness is explained in a way that makes everything that has happened entirely possible. If given isolation, time and the means, something the likes of this could happen in reality. Lord John is the Colonel Kurtz in all of this, he's down the river and in charge of mindless soldiers, using psychological warfare to carve his whims upon the world. The character of Chris is also a joy. Foul mouthed and quick thinking, I had the feeling throughout that this seemed like a jumping off point and that he might easily appear in solving other strange tales as a kind of pirate/gangster Fox Mulder facing off against further weirdness in the world. From the first page this sets off in high gear and doesn't drop down until the last few pages. If you enjoy a short breakneck read with a flawed hero you'll be at home on this island bound book." Snakebite Horror Reviews. (20th August 2013) "I was really surprised and delighted by this wee book. I read it in one night. The book reminded me of many, many horror movies that I have loved growing up, how you are drawn in to the creepiness and thinking oh no, do go in there or don't do that. It doesn't take long to start and the anticipation that something is about to go wrong and is eerie starts from the opening chapter. If you're looking for a new author to try, like stories that revolve around remote towns gone wrong, blood lust and murder then I think this might be perfect for you." -- So Many Books, So Little Time "

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