The Horror Book Club

N.B. this meeting will be held in person in the Prince of Wales pub near Covent Garden There is also an online session held on Thursday if you are not in London or are not able to attend in person for any other reason.

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.

The meeting will start at 7pm and finish between 9.00 and 10pm (BST), with breaks in between.

Here’s the summary from Amazon:
Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends – Harriet and David Lovatt’s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, ‘full of cold dislike’, tears at Harriet’s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world …

N.B. this meeting is held online via Zoom, the link will be posted on the day before the meeting is due to start. If you want to join us for the in-person discussion, it is held the day before (on Wednesday) in a central London pub.

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.

The meeting will start at 7pm and finish between 9.00 and 10pm (BST), with breaks in between.

Here’s the summary from Amazon:
Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends – Harriet and David Lovatt’s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, ‘full of cold dislike’, tears at Harriet’s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world …

N.B. this meeting will be held in person in the Prince of Wales pub near Covent Garden There is also an online session held on Thursday if you are not in London or are not able to attend in person for any other reason.

Who's a good doggie?

The meeting will start at 7pm and finish between 9.00 and 10pm (BST), with breaks in between.

Here’s the summary from Goodreads:
His Bite Is Worse Than His Bark..
It happens innocently enough, but doesn't it happen always. A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave - and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself.
A terrified four-year-old boy sees his bedroom closet door swing open untouched by human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming in the darkness.
The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind..

N.B. this meeting is held online via Zoom, the link will be posted on the day before the meeting is due to start. If you want to join us for the in-person discussion, it is held the day before (on Wednesday) in a central London pub.

Who's a good doggie?

The meeting will start at 7pm and finish between 9.00 and 10pm (BST), with breaks in between.

Here’s the summary from Goodreads:
His Bite Is Worse Than His Bark..
It happens innocently enough, but doesn't it happen always. A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave - and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself.
A terrified four-year-old boy sees his bedroom closet door swing open untouched by human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming in the darkness.
The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind..