About the Author

John Llewellyn Probert is the author of five short story collections, including the award-winning The Faculty of Terror and its follow-up The Catacombs of Fear (both from Gray Friar Press), Coffin Nails (Ash-Tree Press), Against the Darkness (Screaming Dreams) and Wicked Delights (Atomic Fez). Spectral Press has just published his novella The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine. The House that Death Built' is his first novel.

Reviews

The delightfully wicked Mr Probert wields his prose like a scalpel. His imagination is impressively warped and gruesome, and yet his tales have an unrepentantly English reticence. There's dark humour here, and unexpected poignancy -- indeed, the book is as full of surprises as the man himself. Horror is lucky to have him. -- Ramsey Campbell