"On the black moors of northern England in the shadow of an modern missile base, a band of Druids enact their pagan rites… Rites which unleash a nightmare vision of two unspeakable horrors – ancient supernatural evil and nuclear catastrophe…..."


Moonwell, a town in England's Peak District, gets it's name from a cave that dominates the surrounding moor. Every Midsummer Eve the townspeople, following ancient Druid Customs, decorate the cave with designs.

A Christian evangelist, Godwin Mann, has come to Moonwell to put a stop to the paganism.

When Mann descends into the cave to stamp out the pagan forces that lurk there, he encounters instead an evil being of tremendous power which invades his body and soul, changing him into a humanoid with "long spindly arms and reptilian eyes."

Meanwhile, darkness covers the town, the phones go dead and the town is cut of from the outside world.

Now that he monster is free it intends to wreak revenge by detonating nuclear missiles stationed nearby.......

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Started off really good, halfway through I thought I was going to DNF it because it's a rather bloated novel, it could have done with better editing.

I'm glad I stuck with it though because after the halfway mark, it got pretty good and I liked the ending and the overall Lovecraftian writing style Campbell uses here.

It would have made a five star short story, but because it's a novel which should have been cut down from 428 pages to 328 pages - I've given it three stars.

Fans of eerie, occult horror stories should give this a go!