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Paperbacks from Hell #3: THE REAPING by Bernard Taylor

Cover of The Reaping, by Bernard Taylor, Paperbacks from Hell edition. Features a tower in the countryside with a line of female figures apparently involved in some ritual.

The story just exudes a gothic atmosphere that gets increasingly bizarre in ways that simultaneously attract and repel Rigby and the reader. There’s a slow build of discomfort and the sense that something is just a bit off, slowly increasing in creepiness as Rigby’s curiosity and failings further entrap him in the situation.