The Matrix

Aycliffe, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 000649319X / ISBN 13: 9780006493198

Published by Harper Collins, London, 1995

About this Item

237 pages. 205 grams. This book is in very good condition marked only by previous owner's inscription on half title page. 'After the death of his beloved wife, Andrew Macleod finds solace in his research in Edinburgh. His interest in the ancient practices of magic is purely academic until the soothingly hypnotic rituals and mysterious ceremonies begin to lure him into a consuming quest for knowledge. When his passion escalates into an obsession for power and mastery, Andrew unwittingly becomes the apprentice of Duncan Mylne, who has a strange hold over him. Though he fears Mylne's menacing tutelage, he allows himself to be drawn deeper into an inner circle of evil. When he finally discovers the demented motivation behind Mylne's interest in him, it is too late for redemption, poised as he is on the edge of the horrific abuss between life and death. A white-knuckle tale of haunting past and present day hell, the Matrix is more disturbing than the imagination's worst conjurings.' 'Intelligent, literate, and filled with fine research on everything from the eerie tonalities of Gaelic psalms to the arcane libraries of Edinburgh's law community. There are echoes of the greatest ghost writer of them all. Edgar Allan Poe, in the poised and elegant bookishness of the prose, of Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner in the sinister figure shadowing our student hero through the Edinburgh streets.' SCOTSMAN. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Horror.; ISBN: 000649319X. ISBN/EAN: 9780006493198. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 000526.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Matrix
• Publisher: Harper Collins, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000649319X
• ISBN 13: 9780006493198
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction, Horror.

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Synopsis

When Andrew MacLeod finds a magical treatise from the 16th century in the library, strange dreams begin to haunt his sleep. His investigations lead him to a group known as the "Church of Eternal Wisdom" and their shadowy leader, Duncan Mylne.

About the Author

Jonathan Aycliffe was born in Belfast in 1949. He studied English, Persian, Arabic and Islamic studies at the universities of Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge, and lectured at the universities of Fez in Morocco and Newcastle upon Tyne. The author of several successful full-length ghost stories, he lives in the north of England with his wife, homeopath and health writer, Beth MacEoin. He also writes as Daniel Easterman, under which name he has penned nine bestselling novels.