Bernard Taylor has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Sweetheart, Sweetheart.
Sweetheart, Sweetheart
Summary
David Warwick, an Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin brother, Colin, is in danger. He returns to England and learns the shocking truth: both Colin and his young bride Helen have died ghastly deaths - deaths that no one in the village wants to talk about. Now David has inherited his brother's home, Gerrard's Hill Cottage, a lovely house with a lush garden that seems to promise peace and comfort to all who dwell there. But as David tries to unearth the facts of what really happened to his brother and his wife, he has no idea of the horror and evil that surround him or the terrible fate that may be in store. A chilling story that builds slowly and inexorably towards its shocking climax, Bernard Taylor's Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) has been recognized as one of the finest horror novels ever written. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Rowe.
©1977 Bernard Taylor (P)2016 Valancourt Books, LLC
The Moorstone Sickness
Summary
After the death of their infant son, Hal and Rowan Graham decide to leave the mad bustle of London and move to a quiet country refuge. And the rustic village of Moorstone seems perfect. Too perfect? Lying beneath a hill capped by an enormous stone, Moorstone hides mysterious secrets. Why does such a small town need such a large insane asylum? Why do the village's elderly residents leave everything they own to young newcomers they barely know? And why is everyone so friendly, so handsome, and so preoccupied with Hal and Rowan's health?
Before the Grahams can piece the insidious puzzle together, they are plunged into a spiraling terror of ancient mysteries reborn, people who are not quite what they seem, and a village that is quaint, charming - and deadly!
When it comes to spine-chilling tales of quiet horror, no one surpasses Bernard Taylor, the best-selling author of the classic novels, The Godsend and Sweetheart, Sweetheart.
"Reaches its horrifying climax with seductive grace." (Library Journal)
"A fine atmosphere of terror." (New York Times)
"Slow-building occult horror." (Kirkus Reviews)
"His fiction grips and holds the reader.... Taylor is a master." (Publishers Weekly)
©1982, 2018 Bernard Taylor (P)2018 Valancourt Books
The Comeback
Summary
A chilling new thriller from Bernard Taylor, the award-winning author of The Godsend and Sweetheart, Sweetheart Once a celebrated singer, Rosemary Paul is now an embittered woman in her 60s, forgotten by nearly everyone but her assistant, Carrie Markham, who idolizes her and panders to her every need. When Rosemary receives the unexpected news that her record company is dusting off one of her albums for a reissue, the old hunger for fame and success is reignited, and with Carrie's help she begins to plan her big comeback. But as preparations commence, long buried secrets begin to resurface, and Rosemary's quest for fame at any price will lead to murder.... The new novel by Bernard Taylor, the bestselling author of The Godsend and Mother's Boys, The Comeback is a psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat with a plot whose twists and turns will keep you guessing until the final chapter. Critical Acclaim for Bernard Taylor: "Bernard Taylor writes with grace...a shocker...I enjoyed every horrid word of it.' (Daily Telegraph on The Godsend) "The best ghost story I have ever listened to...a potential classic." (Charles L. Grant on Sweetheart, Sweetheart) "Weaves a web that grows tighter with each turn of the chapter." "Booklist on The Reaping)
©2018 Bernard Taylor (P)2019 Valancourt Books LLC
The Godsend
Summary
Alan and Kate Marlowe are a typical, loving, middle-class couple, with four small children. But they wish they had just one more, a beautiful baby daughter. So when a strange young woman abandons her infant at their house, they view it as a blessing - a godsend - and adopt little Bonnie as their own. But not long after Bonnie’s arrival, terrible things begin to happen to the Marlowes, starting with the death of their son Matthew. As the tragedies mount, Alan suspects that Bonnie is somehow responsible. Is he losing his grip on sanity? After all, surely this angelic child could not be responsible for such horrors? The classic first novel by Bernard Taylor, The Godsend (1976) earned widespread critical acclaim on its initial publication and was the basis for a 1980 film. Taylor’s chilling novels Sweetheart, Sweetheart and The Moorstone Sickness are also available from Valancourt.
©2015 Bernard Taylor (P)2020 Valancourt Books LLC
This Is Midnight: Stories
Summary
The complete short fiction of a master of modern horror fiction
In "Out of Sorts", things get hairy for a man’s wife and his mistress when he begins to feel unwell on the night of a full moon. In "Travelling Light", a traveller is obliged to share a room with a strange man who seems to know a little too much about a series of bizarre murders in which wives have been slain by their husbands. A tourist fascinated by the serial killer John Reginald Christie undergoes an uncanny and horrific experience on a trip to London in "Forget-Me-Not". And in "Samhain", marital strife threatens to turn deadly when a witch turns to black magic to do away with her pathetic husband.
The 13 stories collected here represent the complete short fiction of Bernard Taylor, one of the best-selling horror authors of the 1970s and 80s, author of The Godsend and Mother’s Boys, both adapted for film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart, hailed by Charles L. Grant as the finest ghost story of all time. In these tales, which often feature an unexpectedly cruel or bizarre twist, Taylor offers a clever mixture of horror and black humor that will delight fans of the genre.
©2017 Bernard Taylor (P)2019 Valancourt Books LLC
The Reaping
Summary
When Tom Rigby is commissioned to paint a young woman’s portrait at Woolvercombe House, the offer is too lucrative to refuse. But from the moment of his arrival at the secluded country mansion, strange and inexplicable events begin to transpire. Soon, he is drawn into an impenetrable maze of horror, and by the time he discovers the role he is intended to play in a diabolical design, it will already be too late. For, the seeds of evil have been sown, and the time to reap their wicked harvest is nigh! A classic novel by ’70s and ’80s horror master Bernard Taylor, The Reaping (1980) is now available as an audiobook. Praise for The Reaping: "Move over, Stephen King!" (New York Daily News) "Draws the reader into a web that grows gradually tighter with each turn of the page!" (Booklist) "Taylor works wizardry again!" (Publishers Weekly)
©1980 Bernard Taylor (P)2019 Valancourt Books LLC