Post the days of The Fog, The Rats, The Survivor I lost the feel for Herbert's work as it seemed to move away from the heights of his earlier work; The Sepulchre feels like a tentative move back to his roots with some well crafted character and story development to build the reality within which the horror can emerge and work well within.

Perhaps a must for Herbert fans, and maybe a decent introduction to him if you have not read the guy. Vampiric Draining: By Cabala recitation, Kline attunes to, and absorbs, the draining life force of slain Human Sacrifice victims.

The novel incorporates many similarities between ‘ The Spear ’ (1978) and perhaps even ‘ The Jonah ’ (1981), with the predominant thriller/horror crossover, as well as the uncovering of age old secrets that have transcended vast amounts of time. It gets a bit chaotic and absurd towards the end, but then absurdity is something Herbert does really well.

Pretty typical Herbert, and by that, I mean a decent story and characters, the obligatory sex scenes, and a decent denouement. Herbert dug up or probably just plain made up stuff about Sumeria and their gods that constitute the supernatural component here; it was so unique it was interesting. Age Without Youth: In Neath's lodge, a Jerusalem merchant encountered by Kline in the 1920s, bears the bodily effects of Kline's unnatural ageing. Halloran will combat men who thrive on physical corruptions; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront his soul's own darkness.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.