WICKER MAN (PB) (POD)

First published in 1978, five years after the release of the cult classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man by director Robin Hardy and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, is a gripping classic horror novel sought-after by horror buffs and cineasts alike. A novelisation of the haunting Anthony Shaffer script, which drew from David Pinner's novel Ritual, it is the tale of Highlands policeman, Police Sergeant Neil Howie, on the trail of a missing girl and being lured to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle. As May Day approaches, strange, magical, shamanistic and erotic events erupt around him. He is convinced that the girl has been abducted for human sacrifice. Yet he is soon to find that he may be the revellers' quarry...