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Ritual in the Dark
The terrifying thriller of murder most macabre
First book in the Gerard Sorme trilogy
by Colin Wilson
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Scan Notes: Proofed carefully, italics intact. For some reason, quotes were not used for dialogue in this
book at all. The other two books in the "trilogy" are "Man without a Shadow" (US: "The Sex Diary of
Gerard Sorme") and "The God of the Labyrinth" (US: "The Hedonists").


Back Cover:

WILSON'S CLASSIC NOVEL
OF CONTEMPORARY MURDER

A wave of sickening deaths hits the streets of modern London. Young women, mainly prostitutes,
are found mangled and mutilated. The police are baffled, the press outraged -- not since Jack the Ripper
has such a sinister brand of violent murders been unleashed. Is the culprit a homicidal maniac or a
coldblooded, calculating killer wreaking a personal vendetta on a corrupt and callous society?
In this best-selling, blood-blanching chiller, Colin Wilson examines the murderous motives of a
depraved mind and creates a story of biting realism which will stagger the imagination and shock the
intellect. . .
Gerard Sorme, a young but world-weary writer, accidentally meets a wealthy ballet critic, Austin
Nunne, who introduces Sorme to a cosmopolitan world he had previously only dreamed of, as well as
gradually revealing himself as a pervert, a sadistic homosexual with a taste for exotic perfume and rooms
draped in black. But Sorme extends his acquaintance further to include a Roman Catholic priest, a
German pathologist, a Van-Gogh-like painter and two women, a niece and aunt, who in turn become his
mistresses. Against the background of a series of baffling, sickening murders, Sorme finds himself drawn
closer and closer to the sexual maniac who is terrorizing the streets of London -- and whom he knows to
be somehow connected with his newly acquired friends. . .

"Not since Dickens has a British fiction-writer dealt with murder in a book of such size and seriousness"
-- Sunday Express

"What an unforgettable, really great evocation. Terrible and tragic insight. . . an important book" --
Sunday Times

"Exhilarating reading" -- The Listener


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Published in 1976 by Panther Books Ltd
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First published by Victor Gollancz Ltd 1960
Copyright ┬й Colin Wilson 1960
Made and printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
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