The story is then picked up 14 years later and explores how the events on both sides of the Atlantic have affected the various band members as they slowly come under pressure to reform and complete the unfinished sessions.This isn’t traditional horror, as always with Rickman’s writing the atmosphere is evoked in the spaces that he leaves in the narrative with the atmospheric abbey always situated at the heart of the story, Rickman roots this book in a landscape familiar to anyone who’s read any of his other books, for fans of the Merrily Watkins series – there’s even a fleeting reference to Ted Watkins – and the book does go some way to explaining some of the backstory to some events in that series.I really don’t understand why Rickman isn’t a bigger name in British fiction writing. Berkley Trade Pub, 6.

The recording doesn’t go well and ends in tragedy, simultaneously, across the Atlantic, John Lennon is murdered. Four musicians gather in a recording studio in a haunted abbey, to tap into the sites psychic dark history, the same night when John Lennon was murdered.

In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again. Buy December Main Market by Rickman, Phil (ISBN: 9780333623091) from Amazon's Book Store. /rebates/2fDecember-Phil-Rickman2fbook2f1534368&. The book opens in December 1980, a group of musicians, most of who are psychic as well as talented musicians, recording under the name ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ are working overnight in a recording studio sited in an old abbey in rural Wales. Kindle 9.99 Rate this book December Phil Rickman 4.06 1,142 ratings89 reviews In the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood.

December by Phil Rickman