This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in Wuthering Heights . And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world. When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England. But Emily’s father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years ago—and it is taking possession of Emily’s beloved but foolish and dissolute brother. Curzon must regard Emily’s family as a dire threat. In spite of being at deadly odds, Emily and Curzon find themselves thrown together in fighting werewolves, confronting pagan gods, even saving each other from the lures of moorland demons. And in a final battle that sweeps from the haunted village of Haworth to a monstrous shrine far out on the moors, the two of them must be reluctant allies against an ancient power that seems likely to take their souls as well as their lives.

Udgivet af Head of Zeus 

Tim Powers
Amerikansk forfatter som har skrevet fantasy siden 1976. Powers dannede sammen med James Blaylock og K.W. Jeter en lille klike af kolleger rundt om deres læremester Phillip K. Dick og Powers og Blaylock er sammen ansvarlig for den opdigtede engelse digter William Ashbless som er en af personerne I en af Powers bedste bøger "The Anubis Gates." Her havner en litteraturhistorier som er ved at researche Ashbless I 1810 og bliver nødt til at klare sig selv. De tre bøger "Last Call", om trolddommen ved at spille poker, "Expiration Date", om folk som spiser spøgelser, samt "Earthquake Weather" danner en lille trilogi