Ballyvas. On the rain-wreathed west coast of Ireland. The perfect village for Jack Quinlan to research into the Famine. Too perfect. As the mists of history roll back, Jack discovers that the bloody spectre oWpe Famine is hungry for new life. That the emaciated victims of his nightmares are all too real in their quest for blood. And that only by joining forces with the village in a horrifying ritual can the living be left in peace by the dead... "One of the best and most original ghost stories in years - it chilled me to my bones" WHITLEY STREIBER, author of THE WOLFEN