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Evil Intent

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This particular writer is on par with Simon Clark and James Herbert, two of England's best horror scribes. Taylor is a genius at moving this little story right along. His characters are real and very funny.

Taylor weaves a fascinating nightmare about a family that moves into a relative's house. A couple of incidents with neighbor, John Callow, get them off on the wrong start. He comes around to apologize, but strange deaths begin taking place. Its all related to the RUNES!! I will stop here, but the ending is a clincher.

Taylor is awesome at keeping u interested. The opera doesn't fascinate me, but he described it very well and wanted me to care. A nice story from a guy who obviously knows it doesn't need to be gory, to be scary!!!

Years and years ago I read a great book called Mother's Boys but I had forgotten who wrote it until I recently saw it on a shelf. Once I knew it was Bernard Taylor who wrote that masterpiece I had a look for other novels he had written. Evil Intent was the first novel I have come across and although it is a little bit less realistic than Mother's Boys I found I could not put it down until the end. I must however say I was a little disappointed that the ending ended up being the predictable ending you could see coming for quite some time. I was reading thinking well Jack Forrest could just do this and disappointingly that is exactly what he did although Taylor did try and put a small twist into it. If Evil Intent had any other ending than the predictable one it would have easily been five stars in my rating but the disappointment of reading what you thought was going to happen was a substantial let down. Still it is a great read and the enjoyable English of a past era style it is written in has you turning the pages to see what will happen to the Forrests next.

In Evil Intent Jack Forrest inherits a house in a small English village and once he and his wife Connie see it they fall in love with the place and the relaxed lifestyle the village will bring their family. They quickly move in along with Sarah, Connie's mother, their son Jack and twin daughters Lydia and Kitty. It is not long before Connie and Sarah have a run in with a villager named John Callow and the wrath they have to endure from him is pure evil.

Bernard Taylor is one of the greatest horror writers of this or any generation, Believe me! I don't hand compliments out freely. You have to try out this author! I read the Godsend back in 1978 it was the first horror novel I had ever read, it was absolutely brilliant! an instant classic, every bit as good as The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. Since then I have read every book that I could get my hands on and they all are uniformely excellent I would give them all 5 stars. Evil Intent is about a man named John Callow who is tormented, cheated, insulted, basically treated like s#!t by the people in his town of Valley Green, he discovers an ancient curse and wreaks death and misery on anyone that ever hurt him. Suspenseful Shocker will keep you on the edge of your seat all the way to an appropriate thrilling conclusion. The endings of Bernard Taylor's stories are always great unlike some of his more sucsessful contemporaries, they're always emotional and unpredictable. Try out Madeline or Sweetheart Sweetheart they're superb.