The God Game

Have you ever wanted to play God by manipulating men and women while luxuriating in a life of utmost decadence? The Black Lodge does just that...Arthur Machen, author of esoteric books, finds the evil characters of his novels coming back to torment him in the London of the 1890s.Adam Stride, present-day novelist and private detective, finds his own life threatened by characters he thought to be creatures of fiction in the London of the 1990s.Linked across time by a sacred stone that has fallen into their hands, Machen and Stride find themselves unwittingly whirled into a monstrous game. A game played by the evil Dr Lipsius, the barbaric Raymond, the smooth Davies and the wicked Helen, aided and abetted by the truly diabolical Septimus Keen, who might be a man or a woman and whose bizarre tales of horror, the supernatural and Infinity confound the hapless victims.Hounded, haunted, their perceptions utterly distorted by beings who can consider horrific tortures with a smile, Machen and Stride are set on course for a nightmare descent into the Pit itself...The God Game is a brilliantly inventive novel of occult horror searing across the dimensions of time and space.