The Faculty of Terror

The Children of the Night Award winner 2006.

Take a Diploma in Fear... Four secretaries working a late shift in a deserted office block... A young man who sees the ghost of his dead father in wet glass... The British underworld boss who will do anything to restore his tortured wife's good looks. The old cottage in the Wye Valley whose walls are soaked with blood. An art gallery where patrons become part of the paintings... A shop where you can buy anything your heart desires, but at a terrible price... When music graduate Paul Dearden accepts an invitation to dinner at his old university the last thing he expects is an evening of the macabre. Over the finest food and drink he learns that the institution has a history steeped in blood. Paul cannot believe that the tales he is told by his dining companions are true, even though none of them are as cruel or as terrifying as the story he needs to tell. In the tradition of classic British anthology horror films like 'The House that Dripped Blood', 'Asylum' and 'From Beyond the Grave', John Llewellyn Probert's 'The Faculty of Terror' offers six tales of terror linked by a framework story, the climax of which will earn all who survive it a first class degree in spine tingling horror!

Contents:

• Introduction by Paul Finch
• An Author’s Warning to the Curious
• Prologue
• Overtime
• Faculty Interlude Number One
• Asphyx in Glass
• Faculty Interlude Number Two
• A Family Affair
• Faculty Interlude Number Three
• Set in Stone
• Faculty Interlude Number Four
• The States of the Art
• Faculty Interlude Number Five
• The Kreutzenberg Sonata
• Finale
• About the Author
• Author Interview
• Story Notes