Peter Tremayne – Angelus! (Sphere, 1985)
The Most Evil Horror Wears The Mask Of Innocence
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IT TOLLS FOR STARK, BLOODY HORROR …
The exclusive college of St Peter Damian stood in one of the most beautiful parts of the remote Irish countryside.
Yet there was nothing beautiful about the nightmare sequence of rape, mutilation and gruesome death that beset the college that fatal autumn.
Ed Devlin, the young Irish-American tutor who thought he’d achieved a lifelong ambition in getting a post at St Peter Damian, had no idea of the vicious vortex of slaughter into which he was about to be drawn. Soon the regular ringing of the college’s Angelus bell took on overtones of demonic terror as it tolled out ever more horrific messages of carnage most foul …