The Beatrice Curse II eBook Geoffrey Sleight
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After a horrifying reign of terror, everyone believed the evil witch Beatrice had been destroyed forever. But they were wrong. Determined to strike even greater fear, she rises from the dead again, joined by the seductive young woman she possessed in a murderous dark arts ceremony. Together they combine their unearthly powers to inflict brutal vengeance on the enemies who fought to destroy them. Beatrice's curse casts a new, long shadow of death and destruction.
The Beatrice Curse II eBook Geoffrey Sleight
This story has a kitsch “Twilight Zone” feel to it, complete with the usual sleepy backwater village, of which of course a good number of the inhabitants are party to a witches’ coven while leading double-lives and welcoming (or not) the newcomer, a socially awkward man who idolizes his father, offers to go to the village in his stead, but then — due to his varied misunderstandings — tries to leave early and often until his parents come to rescue him.The ghosts will delight fans of stories such as “Death Becomes Her”, as the delivery is in similar tongue-in-cheek kooky style, from their antics to inconvenience the protagonist, to a bungled attempted seduction by his aunt as a clear hat-tip to the analogous scene in “Dracula”, but without any of the eroticism thereof.
It’s distinctly an “easy reading” style book, written in very simple language that won’t send you reaching for a dictionary at any point, and the plot is certainly not overly complicated either; it’s short and straight-forward.
In brief, this isn’t a book that’s trying to take itself too seriously (even our would-be hero gets the girl, after being forcibly stopped from quitting enough times), and is certainly a light-hearted stroll through the “campfire ghost story” idea.
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The Beatrice Curse II eBook Geoffrey Sleight Reviews
British author Geoffrey Sleight lives and writes in Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, England and the home of the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery (another fine British novelist!). He is the author of six novels of the mystery/thriller genre now after a history of working in journalism, acting, writing scripts for audio dramas and screenplays. Sleight's novels incorporate touches of history embroidered with the supernatural mysteries his pen scribes so well. Having read eight of his novels, this reviewer can comfortably state that THE BEATRICE CURSE II Terror in Witch Wood is no exception - many of his constant readers will likely place this newest release of Sleight's high on their list of favorites. As is his bent, Sleight keeps his thrillers short (this one is only 264 pages) and that fact only intensifies the vigor of his novels - present the idea of the story, proceed into the characters, and spin out the suspenseful ending.
Geoffrey immediately captures our attention in his opening paragraph ‘My father Mark Roberts was nearly murdered in a black magic ceremony staged to raise an evil witch from the dead. It was a terrible shock when I read the story of the events that happened to him over 50 years ago in a remote Devon village called Deersmoor. The witch Beatrice had been burned at the stake in 1763, accused of killing a young brother and sister so that she could use their souls to invoke the powers of darkness. She claimed innocence of the crime, but was condemned to die agonisingly in the flames. As the flames began savagely frying her body, she screamed a dreadful curse that young lives would be sacrificed in a black arts ceremony every hundred years, raising her from the dead to deliver a reign of terror. A century later, a local merchant murdered two youngsters using Beatrice's occult power to oppress the local villagers and drive them into poverty. Another century had passed when my father left London in 1963 to write a book in Deersmoor. There he met Alison Carpenter and they fell in love. But Alison's sister, Barbara, had evil designs. She pretended to be my father's friend, luring him into a secret black magic ceremony. She planned to cut his throat and use his blood to raise Beatrice from the dead and receive terrifying supernatural powers in return. In a violent struggle, my father ended up beheading Barbara with an ancient sword that Beatrice had been accused of using to commit murder two hundred years earlier. Alison had no idea of her sister's evil plan. And although my father had killed Barbara in self-defence after she'd become possessed by the witch, it caused a massive rift between them for years. Eventually they met again and married, later producing me, Dave Roberts, their son. I only learned of this horrifying episode in my parents' life a year ago, after reading a manuscript of the events written by my father. It was now history, or so I thought until I received a phone call from him one Saturday morning.’
The terse summary is a guidepost to the story – ‘After a horrifying reign of terror, everyone believed the evil witch Beatrice had been destroyed forever. But they were wrong. Determined to strike even greater fear, she rises from the dead again, joined by the seductive young woman she possessed in a murderous dark arts ceremony. Together they combine their unearthly powers to inflict brutal vengeance on the enemies who fought to destroy them. Beatrice's curse casts a new, long shadow of death and destruction.’
One of the primary reasons each of Geoffrey's books works so well is his inordinately strong ability to describe credible character upon whom the strange bizarre aspects of his tale are adhered. That is simply one reason he writes these adventures better that most. Once you have read one of his books, you are addicted. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, February 17
This story has a kitsch “Twilight Zone” feel to it, complete with the usual sleepy backwater village, of which of course a good number of the inhabitants are party to a witches’ coven while leading double-lives and welcoming (or not) the newcomer, a socially awkward man who idolizes his father, offers to go to the village in his stead, but then — due to his varied misunderstandings — tries to leave early and often until his parents come to rescue him.
The ghosts will delight fans of stories such as “Death Becomes Her”, as the delivery is in similar tongue-in-cheek kooky style, from their antics to inconvenience the protagonist, to a bungled attempted seduction by his aunt as a clear hat-tip to the analogous scene in “Dracula”, but without any of the eroticism thereof.
It’s distinctly an “easy reading” style book, written in very simple language that won’t send you reaching for a dictionary at any point, and the plot is certainly not overly complicated either; it’s short and straight-forward.
In brief, this isn’t a book that’s trying to take itself too seriously (even our would-be hero gets the girl, after being forcibly stopped from quitting enough times), and is certainly a light-hearted stroll through the “campfire ghost story” idea.
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