The Dark Destroyer by the late British author John S. Glasby (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia,
obituary at The Telegraph) is his standalone supernatural horror novel with investigative mystery elements, with the obligatory ancient awakening evil stalking some quaint village, with possible ties to an extinct old family with rumoured unsavoury practices, the source of which the locals must figure out before it's too late, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.
This was originally published in 2007 by Linford as part of their Linford Mystery Library line, posthumously for the then-recently-deceased author.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Dark forces are at work in Redforde.
Something terribly old and infinitely evil has woken ... something that is thirsty for blood.
There are rumours of human sacrifice, devil worship and the extinct De Vernis family.
The dead walk and the moors, woods, the village and the church ooze evil like a sore.
But will the locals be able to figure out what lies at the bottom of this before it is too late?