The Ritual The Ritual

The Ritual

Now A Major Film, The Most Thrilling Chiller You'll Read This Year

    • 3.9 • 61 Ratings
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

In this award-winning supernatural thriller from Britain's master of horror, four friends find themselves lost in an ancient Scandinavian forest where a malevolent presence still lingers.

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle. No longer young men, they have little left in common and tensions rise as they struggle to connect. Frustrated and tired, they take a shortcut that turns their hike into a nightmare that could cost them their lives.

Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, they stumble across an isolated old house. Inside, they find the macabre remains of old rites and pagan sacrifices; ancient artefacts and unidentifiable bones. A place of dark ritual and home to a bestial presence that is still present in the ancient forest, and now they're the prey.

As the four friends struggle towards salvation they discover that death doesn't come easy among these ancient trees . . .

'This novel grabs from the very first page, refuses to be laid aside, and carries the hapless reader, exhausted and wrung out, to the very last sentence' – The Guardian

The Ritual, winner of the August Derleth Award, is perfect for fans of Stephen King. Now a major film starring Rafe Spall.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
6 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan
SIZE
5.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Margjohn5 ,

The ritual

Another excellent read from this talented author.

Funtasmo ,

Mixture of great and tedious

Really good story and the first half of the book was a joy to read. Second half of the book was almost like a dictionary had been emptied on the pages just for the sake of filling them. I skipped multiple pages at a time and didn’t miss anything except tedious overly descriptive narratives that were not necessary making continuing reading quite laborious at times. It was almost like large sections of the second half of the book were written by someone else. Made it to the end though, and apart from a slightly disappointing ending it was a pretty good read (for the most part)

MIKEYYUMYUM ,

Goes on a bit

A lot of words for not a lot happening. Enjoyable but quiet the slug of a read.

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