Ash

· David Ash Book 3 · Pan Macmillan
4.0
196 reviews
Ebook
600
Pages
Eligible

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.

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4.0
196 reviews
Tony Evans
December 12, 2012
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.
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A Google user
October 29, 2012
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.
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Louise Jones
January 3, 2013
Was very disappointed with the final installment of the David Ash series. The other 2 books were brilliant - fast paced and genuinely terrifying at times. This book, although disturbing in places was not scary enough and the idea of real-life villains living in a secret castle was way too far-fetched and silly. Felt as though Herbert was using this novel as a voice for his own political opinions. The idea of Diana's long lost son veered on offensive. Wanted more focus on the hauntings!
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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.

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