Shrine: Now a Major Film Called The Unholy – the Novel Is Even More Terrifying

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Was that not just a further development on an idea pulled directly from Ambrose Bierce’s short ‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’ (1890)? The girl’s village is shocked as she starts performing miracles and the site of the visitation becomes a shrine. His efforts to produce a square jawed action man in The Fog gave us a pompous mouthy gob-sh*te of an environmental officer and I’m sorry to say he misses again in The Shrine. Not my favourite one that I have read, but there was enough darkness and good fun silliness to keep me thoroughly entertained from start to finish. As with all my reviews I will not give the storyline away, I will save that for those who have better reviewing skills than I, just that James Herbert was a British horror treasure and It is a shame he is no long with us.

Niby nic prostszego, takich opowieści w historii ludzkości było wiele, ale wciąż pozostaje coś niesamowitego w motywie dziecka, które doznaje potencjalnego objawienia religijnego. Still, Herbert's net of well fleshed out characters that have some kind of connection to Alice is more than accomplished and that, beside the interesting subject matter, keeps you well engaged throughout the whole book. She now seems to embrace the sudden media attention, basking in the cameras and teeming throngs of desperate believers fighting for a glimpse of the miracle girl.The book plays nicely between the innocence of the little girl who has visions and the brutal violence that whirs around the edges, gradually overwhelming her. It’s one of those ‘love it or hate it’ sort of situations, where there’s no right or wrong answer to whether it works or not. Human beings have no dog in the fight because they don't stand a chance against an entity that doesn't play by physical rules.

And as the storyline becomes more hectic, with the miracles sparking massive media coverage, so this underlying tension just keeps on mounting to gigantic proportions. James Herbert's "The rats" was one of the vary first horror novels I ever read as a young teenager, and his books kept me entertained throughout my teenage years. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two thirds of the book, but my attention really waned after that and I had to force myself to continue reading. Remember, the tension has been mounting from the very beginning of the novel, constantly working its way to this final moment.

The story is about Alice Pagett, a deaf-mute child who is cured one night when she runs to an oak tree behind St.