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Blurb: “Phil Rickman is fast becoming one of our most frightening and exciting literary voices. Stephen King hailed his first novel, Curfew, as "REMARKABLE." Then came Candlenight, which the Sunday Telegraph called
"GRIMLY SINISTER." Now comes Rickman's most ambitious, most chilling work. A novel of torment and tragedy, of dark secrets and hellish redemption.
In the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood. On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again...
The Abbey's tower house is now a recording studio, and a hot young band called The Philosopher's Stone has gathered to tap into the site's dark history. But no one could predict the powerful forces that rise the night of December 8. The explosive tragedy. The horrifying death. And in the aftermath of that fateful session, the members of the band agree to destroy their tapes...and never meet again.
But thirteen years later, the Abbey tapes-known as The Black Album-resurface. And the scattered members of The Philosopher's Stone know that it's time for a reunion. Time to return to that dark December night—for one last performance...”