Shrine: Now a Major Film Called The Unholy – the Novel Is Even More Terrifying

James Herbert

May 2011 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

Now a major film called The Unholy starring The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

In James Herbert's horror novel Shrine, innocence and evil have become one . . .

A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can perform miracles.

Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness.

She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old.

Ratings and reviews

i loved this book when I read it in paperback, was looking forward to reading it again it but after paying full price it cuts me off at 80% not happy.

Never read one of his before and this has not encouraged me. Would be a good story but a lot of unnecessary drivel to get through!!

It took a while to get into the good stuff, but didn't disappoint once it got there.

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.