Ringstones

This was a fascinating read! If you want the plain idea about Ringstones I might say that it is right in the middle between Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman. But the truth is that it's so much more than that. Mythological horror, Freudian dreams/Jungian nightmares and the collective unconscious of my......more

Short, subtle and effective. The story within a story concerns a young college student's summer job as governess to three young children at a remote estate on the moors of Northumberland. Sarban gives much description to the landscape and a rich and potent atmosphere permeates the proceedings, which......more

I am surprised at other reviews of this book...only creepy mythological, weird? Sarban's fantasy tale leans toward pornography, but he perhaps got away with so much kinkiness because he was writing in a more innocent time. Perhaps that is why he used a nom de plume? The descriptions of the countrysid......more

I absolutely enjoyed this book, I read it in a day. On each page I imagined I knew where it was going, but to my delight, I didn't. It's a well considered and really very cleverly controlled book, but better than all of that the book is beautifully written.......more