\'Even on the warmest night of the year, Mr Blackburn knows how to chill our marrow.\' - Scotsman \'Blackburn quickly establishes the tone of urbane nastiness which pervades his new horror story .
This first-ever republication of the novel includes a new introduction by Greg Gbur..
The most unrelentingly dark of the many horror thrillers by the prolific John Blackburn (1923-1993), Our Lady of Pain (1974) is also one of his very best. . .
Because he knows that when the curtain goes up on the opening night performance of the new play \'Our Lady of Pain\', based on the life of the murderous Countess Elizabeth Bathory, something horrific is going to happen and a bloodbath will ensue .
What is the connection between them? Reporter Harry Clay will risk his life and sanity to find out.
A sadistic doctor who takes pleasure in mutilating his patients.
A washed-up actress hellbent on revenge against her critics.
Three hardened criminals who die horribly after being driven mad by terror. undoubtedly one of England\'s best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel.\' - St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers A centuries-old Eastern European legend of a deadly curse. . .
He can be depended upon to sustain swift, sure, exciting, and absorbing stories . . . the grimmest of] Blackburn\'s books.\' - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural \' A] stylish, genuinely chilling author . . . murders and much necrogenic excitement precede an extremely bloody climax.\' - Times Literary Supplement \'A tour de force . . . \'Even on the warmest night of the year, Mr Blackburn knows how to chill our marrow.\' - Scotsman \'Blackburn quickly establishes the tone of urbane nastiness which pervades his new horror story
