<p>Whether it is the resuscitated corpse that visits a hotel gust in <em>The House of the Dead</em> or the maleficent returning warlock cocooning a tomb robber in <em>Mad Allen</em>, or the taking shape of a vague apprehension in <em>A School Story</em>, or a human sacrifice in<em> Blood of the Lamb</em>, Bell knows that what we fear most is the sensation of being afraid and that it is the reader¿s imagination which conjures up the true phantoms of terror.</p>