' B]lack comedy doesn't come blacker . . . This is Gothic diablerie with a smile - a very nasty smile, as though a Charles Addams character had escaped from his picture and perpetrated an elaborate practical joke in prose.' - The Guardian ' A] semi-surrealist, pseudo-Gothic adventure . . . Read on if you can; I could.' - The Observer 'John Blackburn is deservedly well established as a . . . thriller writer. The Cyclops...