A Review I wrote on this classic tale a while ago...
In the Matrix, Jonathan Aycliffe has sculptured a wonderful book of deception and horror. The plot slowly turns like a vice and you are engrossed as each twist and turn takes you deeper into the story line.
Andrew Macleod, the lead character has recently been widowed. Unable to come to terms with his wife's death, he seeks solace in his research into the works of black magic and the occult.
Taken under the wing of the devious Duncan Mylne, Andrew is drawn unwittingly into the world of the arcane and the terrible. The more he learns from this man, the more dangerous things are becoming. People, close to him are trying to get him to stop this learning and telling him that Mylne is evil, but Andrew won't listen to the, not until it is too late and people are killed.
We have ghostly characters here, we have sinister happening and bumps in the night. As Andrew is more learned in the works of the occult, and so he discovers the true meaning of the Matrix and its key to everlasting life…
Very cleverly written, it is reminiscent of all the classic horror story teller: Poe, Wheatley, Hogg…
Oh, and it's a frightener too.
This is classic horror, a tale of the darkened world of the supernatural told by the only man who can tell such a tale.
(Paul McAvoy)
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