Ash

James Herbert

Aug 2012 · David Ash Book 3 · Pan Macmillan

About this eBook

Ash is James Herbert’s last and most controversial novel. It will make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction.

Fear will let you in. Terror will keep you there.

David Ash, ghost hunter and parapsychologist, arrives at Comraich Castle – a desolate, ancient place with a dark heart – to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse, fed and now unleashed by the evil of those who once inhabited this supposed sanctuary – and by some who still do. Yet their hour of retribution is at hand . . .

Start the chilling series from the Master of Horror, with Haunted.

Ratings and reviews

Like many fans of Mr.Herbert I was introduced to his works in my early teens. I thoroughly enjoyed many of his previous novels but this latest one really is poor. The use of so many characters but lacking substance is disappointing. Nevertheless I continued reading only to be dumb founded with the ending...it feels as though Mr.Herbert gave up on the book some where in the middle. 600 pages is a mammoth amount but 600 pages of near on guff is plain wrong. Please Mr.Herbert go back to the drawing board.

I downloaded this book from Amazon for 20p and even then I felt cheated. I thin James Herbert must have written it drunk. Its clichéd and formulaic - think Dan Brown on a very bad day. The character s are 1one dimensional and the plot is totally transparent. I got 90% through and deleted it as just couldn't care what happened in the end.

I thought more could have been made of the fact that all those unconsecrated ashes were a possible source of mischief rather than the title being based on the name of the investigator. I read the book in the dark when I could not sleep and did not find it at all scary. Yet many other of James Herbert's books have been so and I could not have read them in bed. However I think like others that have been made into a movie it would bring out the gruesomeness of the tale.

About the author

James Herbert was not just Britain’s number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he held ever since publication of his first novel, but was also one of our greatest popular novelists. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three novels have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide, and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Russian and Chinese. In 2010, he was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was also awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to literature. His final novel was Ash. James Herbert died in March 2013.