It was during his year as resident playwright at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch that he wrote The Godsend. He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. He has published ten novels under his own name, including The Godsend (1976), which was adapted for a major film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977), which Charles L. While there, he took up acting and writing and continued with both after his return to England.

On graduation he worked as a teacher, painter and book illustrator before going as a teacher to the United States. Following active service in Egypt in the Royal Air Force, he studied Fine Arts in Swindon, then at Chelsea School of Art and Birmingham University. 'A slow-burning, invisibly seductive ghost story.Bernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London. 'Ingenious and well-crafted - a most satisfying chiller!' - Grand Rapids Press there isn't anything that beats it.' - Charles L. at once manages to be both moving and extremely unsettling. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Rowe. Ī chilling story that builds slowly and inexorably towards its shocking climax, Bernard Taylor's Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) has been recognized as one of the finest horror novels ever written.

But as David tries to unearth the facts of what really happened to his brother and his wife, he has no idea of the horror and evil that surround him or the terrible fate that may be in store. Now David has inherited his brother's home, Gerrard's Hill Cottage, a lovely house with a lush garden that seems to promise peace and comfort to all who dwell there. He returns to England and learns the shocking truth: both Colin and his young bride Helen have died ghastly deaths - deaths that no one in the village wants to talk about. David Warwick, an Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin brother, Colin, is in danger.

The Reaping by Bernard Taylor