Virgins and Martyrs
When a graduate student rents a room in Hove, he begins to feel the sinister presence of its missing former occupant. She guides him to shelves in the university library, where crumbling books about decomposing corpses and sacrificial virgins are kept.
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Simon Maginn
Simon Maginn (born 1961) is a British writer who has written Sheep (Corgi 1994), Virgins and Martyrs (Corgi, 1995), A Sickness of the Soul (Corgi 1995), Methods of Confinement (Black Swan 1996) and a novella Rattus which was published alongside a novella by Gary Fry entitled The Invisible Architect of Psychopathy in Feral Companions (Pendragon Press 2010). A film version of Sheep has been released as The Dark. The novels are horror/psychological thrillers, and are mostly out of print.
Simon Maginn also writes satirical comedies as Simon Nolan, including As Good as it Gets (Quartet Books 1999), The Vending Machine of Justice (Quartet Books 2001) and Whitehawk (Revenge Ink 2010).
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