Run to Ground - Jasper Bark - 5*

Run to Ground

Jasper Bark

*****

Jim Mcleod is on the run. 

He’s running from his responsibilities as a father, hiding out from his pregnant girlfriend and working as a groundskeeper in a rural graveyard. He’s running from a lifetime of guilt and bad decisions, but principally he’s running from the murderous entities that have possessed the very ground at his feet. 

Jim has no idea what these entities are, but they’ve done unspeakable things to everyone in the graveyard and now they’re hunting him down. There is nowhere Jim can hide, nowhere he can walk and nowhere he can run that isn’t under the lethal power of the things in the ground. If he stands any chance of survival he must uncover the link between his murderous tormentors, three mysterious graves and an ancient heresy that stretches back to the beginning of time. 

From the first few pages to the very last, Run To Ground takes you down a dark path and shows you the deepest, darkest and depraved things that only worm free from your nightmares. The writing is raw and brilliantly descriptive with a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat, albeit squirming. I shall never, ever look at cemeteries the same way again. What a great book, such a visceral, gory offering. A masterpiece of horror. Perfect nightmare reading..