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Few believed Professor Coldwell could commune with spirits. But in Scotland's oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are visited disappear. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? A chilling occult thriller from award-winning author Adam Nevill, Banquet for the Damned is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacey modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.

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13 March 2014
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From the half-glimpsed manifestations that haunt the entire book to the pure visceral horror of the climax, from the understated menace that lurks under passages of dialogue to the lyrical terror we experience elsewhere, Nevill the novelist displays an impressive range of skills and effects (Ramsey Campbell)

Incredibly accomplished and with a really neat and original monster at the heart of the story. It’s a feast worth savouring (Shivers) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Adam Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. A graduate of the University of St Andrews Masters programme, he is the author of Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days and House of Small Shadows. He has twice won the August Derleth award for best horror novel. Banquet for the Damned was his first novel. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world - that he could commune with spirits. But in Scotland’s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. And now the young are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited disappear.

This is not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it?

This chilling occult thriller is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacy modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.

Praise for Banquet for the Damned:

“Superbly readable and a delight from the first word to last, Banquet for the Damned announces a major new talent in the field of supernatural fiction.”

The Third Alternative

“A wonderful story wonderfully told, this chilling novel reaffirms the place (and importance) of traditional supernatural fiction in the twenty-first century.”

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CLASSIC GHOST STORY CHILLS IN THIS FAST-PACED OCCULT THRILLER --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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From the half-glimpsed manifestations that haunt the entire book to the pure visceral horror of the climax, from the understated menace that lurks under passages of dialogue to the lyrical terror we experience elsewhere, Nevill the novelist displays an impressive range of skills and effects (Ramsey Campbell)

Incredibly accomplished and with a really neat and original monster at the heart of the story. It’s a feast worth savouring (Shivers) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Few believed Professor Coldwell could commune with spirits. But in Scotland's oldest university town something has emerged from the shadows and is stalking the streets. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are inflicted are disappearing. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned-out explorer have of surviving an entanglement with a ruthless, supernatural evil and the secretive cult that serves it? This chilling occult thriller is both an homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacy modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft. Praise for Banquet for the Damned 'A substantial addition to the literature of the supernatural' Ramsey Campbell 'One of the most superbly gripping and creepy books' SFRevu.com --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Adam L.G. Nevill has published short stories and is the author of nine novels written under a pseudonym. He lives in London, England. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HPYMQHY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Main Market Ed. edition (13 March 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 545 pages

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Adam L.G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is an author of horror fiction. Of his novels, 'The Ritual', 'Last Days', 'No One Gets Out Alive' and 'The Reddening' were all winners of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. He has also published three collections of short stories, with 'Some Will Not Sleep' winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2017.

Imaginarium adapted 'The Ritual' (2016) and 'No One Gets Out Alive' (2020) into feature films and several other works are currently in development for the screen.

Adam also offers three free books to readers of horror: 'Cries from the Crypt', downloadable from his website, and 'Before You Sleep' and 'Before You Wake' are available from major online retailers.

The author lives in Devon, England. More information about the author and his books is available at: www.adamlgnevill.com

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 September 2020

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Absolutely thrilling, I read all but the last 26 pages in two sittings, (but I'm self isolating, and I'm retired, so hey). Its extremely rare for a book to make me sleep with the light on, and this is Nevill's 3rd to have that effect on me. The terror of Banquet... is amplified, and made all the more sinister, by a combination of the old town and the modernity of student life, and the presence of something that at one time in history would have dwelt in ramshackle stone cottages in dark, spooky forests, here strutting about in the midst of young people, and for all its dark malevolence, seeming as one of their peers, borne by a coven of the most unlikely members. As usual with this writer, impeccably researched, and immaculately presented, so well presented, in fact, that the reader can almost "see" locations and characters clearly from the first chapter. Frighteningly, terrifyingly brilliant.
Read it before you die.

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jfmdac

Anothr good one.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 February 2018

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I read "The ritual" and enjoyed it very much, so I looked forward to "banquet". Just as good, if not slightly better. Not too happy about comparing Nevill to Stephen King, though. They are both great horror writers, but writing against the background of their respective cultures as they do, I don't think the comparison is fair to either author. Back to the book, and one of the features I found likeable was the almost casual way that he drew some of the minor characters into the heart of the plot. The climax and final ending were also very good; a lot of authors seem to have trouble finishing otherwise good stories, but not the case here. I'll be buying some more of his work(I'm halfway through "Under a watchful eye", and it has got me well hooked.

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becca

Good read Loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 November 2018

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This author does characterisation very well, and this is what hooks you from the start. There are always skeletal creatures rampaging through Neville's books, but each novel is different, and you really get a sense here of St Andrews, and the menacing witchy goings on that builds up to a satisfying ending. The ending here doesn't leave you dangling like it did with The Ritual, so you're not left feeling cheated. I don't personally think that any of this novel was predictable or boring and it kept me turning the pages from beginning to end. Highly recommended. Don't listen to the reviews that say it's boring or rambling. It's neither.

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Paul M. Feeney

I'm starving...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 January 2015

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Now, I have a small confession to make...up until this novel, I had never read an Adam Nevill book. Sure, I'd bought them all as they were released and I've read a couple of his short stories (available in anthologies from Solaris books and very good they are too), but I just hadn't gotten around to the novels. Of course, every respectable horror fan and their dog has read his stuff and I kept seeing plaudit after plaudit on Facebook, on Amazon, on various review sites like The Ginger Nuts Of Horror.

So I put a bit of pressure on myself and decided I'd read all his novels, one after the other...

Banquet For The Damned opens with a young man waking from what might be a state of sleep-walking, which has taken him to a beach at night. There, he hears strange, disembodied voices whispering and saying his name and is finally pursued by a barely seen, dark inhuman presence. It's a cracking scene and sets the tone for what is a highly polished and extremely well-written ghost story (albeit one with antecedents in other forms of horror fiction). Thereafter, we follow the fortunes of Dante and his friend Tom, as they uproot from Birmingham to relocate to the old University town of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dante has been in correspondence with one Eliot Coldwell, a supposed professor at the University, who once wrote a book called Banquet For The Damned, a sort of treatise on the lamentable deterioration of humanities interest and connection with spiritual and occult practices (Coldwell's contention). Dante, and Tom, the last two members of their fractured band, wish to create a concept album based on Coldwell's book-in-progress. Unfortunately, not all is as it seems...

Okay, my intention was to read this in less than a week as my reading habits have become very ponderous the last few years, and after reading Gary McMahon's Beyond Here Lies Nothing in four days, I thought I was on to a roll (bacon and tattie scone, preferably...)... Unfortunately, it took me near a month to finish, due to ill health, work and my general sloth-like ability to waste time doing nothing. Still, it did not diminish my sheer enjoyment of the story and I suspect that if and when I read it again, I'll love it even more if I can finish it quicker. One other thing that stopped me from giving it my full attention was the fact that I didn't want to read it in the house at night, alone. It was too bloody creepy in places.

The story takes place from a number of third person points of view, giving us a broad overview of what's going on, yet there is real skill involved in the fact that we are as much in the dark as many of the players, even up until the final chapters. The story takes in occult ceremonies, witch-craft, the lingering of evil and violent deeds in geographical locations, cultural and anthropological superstitions, night-terrors and sleep paralysis, all set against the wonderfully, almost Gothic, backdrop of St. Andrews. Superficially, it could be a story straight from the original Hammer studios, yet the prose is beautiful and full of depth, and treats its subject matter with a depth and seriousness that never becomes po-faced. Of course, the pace can be leisurely and there are long passages where little seems to occur between the scenes of dread and outright horror, but these are so well written and informative (whether it's giving background, historical information on the area, or simply developing the characters), that it is a joy to read.

What I think that Adam does so well, and understands so completely about the best horror writing, is that it's more about what you don't see than what you do. Anyone can throw a few paragraphs showcasing a bit of violence or gore, but it takes a true craftsman to give you case of skin-crawl at the simple description of some half-glimpsed shadows. This is the essence of true horror writing, where the author persuades you, the reader, to do the work in your own imagination. Even in the final pages, when by rights we should be seeing the 'monster' in full, it still hugs the darkness and is fleshed out by the readers mind as opposed to a full description on the page. Don't get me wrong; there is some violence, but it's extremely sporadic and is utterly essential to both the story and the atmosphere. Again, it's only a few lines, but what is there conjures up such pictures in the mind that it is all the more disturbing and affecting for that.

As I said at the start, it's very much a ghost story in the style of the greats, such as MR James, Poe and such, but it also pays some due to, in my opinion, the likes of Dennis Wheatley, Hammer and Amicus films, thin shades of Lovecraft and his ilk, even some T. E. D. Klein.

It's not without some minor flaws. I did think it could have been a touch shorter. For a first novel, it's a big 'un and occasionally, I felt that there were parts that were simply repeating what had gone before. Also, and this is a very personal thing, I'm not a fan at all of present tense narratives. I find them hard to get into and often they serve to distance the story from me. I appreciate this is a very subjective thing and no doubt, it has worked very well for many. It's a testament to the book that I still finished and enjoyed it despite this.

So, all in all, if I was giving a score I'd say it hovers between a 7 or 8 out of 10 (I know I've given it a 4 out of 5 above, but its closer to a 4.5 in my opinion...). I'm glad I finally pulled my finger out and I look forward to the next one from Adam, Apartment 16...

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Ms. L. Kelly

Boring, not scary and poorly written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 June 2014

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I was looking forward to this book after Neville's last terrible offering (House of small shadows) and hoped he would redeem himself and return to form last seen in Last Days, alas, it wasn't to be. This book is bizarrely written in the present tense eg. 'Dante walks over to the cupboard', instead of 'Dante walked over to the cupboard' - makes for a weird reading experience and I'm unsure why Neville chose to do this. The story's premise is excellent and as a night terror sufferer myself I couldn't wait to read a story weaved around them. The plot itself turned out to be very boring, clunky and did not deliver. Female characters, as usual, are either psychopaths or one-dimensional stereotypes. Core characters are poorly explored at the beginning and there are too many. Neville has decided to have mutliple characters pop up, especially near the end who we have no investment or interest in and I can't help but think that by choosing older characters he's copying King's style a bit, but failing. The story begins nicely but spends too long on the nighttime experiences of characters who shortly die and becomes repetitve in this respect. Dante's friend is stripped from the storyline witthout ceremony or real explanation. I felt like Neville just wanted rid of him and couldn't be arsed to describe his fate. The ending was terrible and still left bits of the plot unexplained. I'll give you one more chance Adam, next time, spend more time on the story and less time thinking of a great title, becuase so far, the titles are the best thing going for most of your books!

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