They don’t go on any longer than is needed. They tell you everything you need to know, but he doesn’t fall into the trap of getting too wrapped up in adding more words than are needed. Best of all, Graeme does a great job of balancing the descriptives in those scenes. If you like your werewolves brutal, that is on show in full force here, with some truly disturbing kills. Part of what that means is the book is violent. Even the good guys– both literal and those who would paint themselves as such – are far from what you’d find in the works of Kelley Armstrong and Patricia Briggs, for example. In that regard, the book does not disappoint.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Urban Fantasy, but I was specifically looking for something scary here. I picked this title up because I was specifically looking for werewolf horror. It’s impossible to look at this piece and not get the two most important pieces of information from it: one, it’s a werewolf book, and two, it’s horror, not paranormal romance. I love, old-school illustrated piece, and this does a great job of capturing the feel of the book. Ben Baldwin has created what is probably one of my favourite book covers ever here. I want to start this review by mentioning the cover. The night of the full moon is approaching and time is running out.īut how can he hope to stop a werewolf, when every full moon he transforms into a bloodthirsty monster himself? The consequences of his past actions, the reappearance of an old flame and a dying man who will either save or damn him are the least of his problems. The latest attack involved one of his childhood enemies, but there’s more going on than meets the eye. Twenty years later, John returns to High Moor. Werewolves are real, and the trail of bodies is just beginning, with young John and his friends smack in the middle of it. When Sergeant Steven Wilkinson begins an investigation, with the help of a specialist hunter, he soon realises that this is no ordinary animal attack. It’s 1986 and the town is gripped in terror after the mutilated corpse of a young boy is found in the woods. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life. A werewolf stalks the town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again.

When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror.

High Moor by Graeme Reynolds