Spawn - Shaun Hutson

Apsychologically complex terror thriller about two disturbed men and the unnatural consequences of their deeds

Harold Pierce didn't mean to kill his baby brother all those years ago. He didn't intend to incinerate him in a fire, but he did, and he has spent most of his adult life in a psychiatric hospital because of it. Upon release he is given a job as a hospital porter, but what the jobinvolves brings back memories of what happened to his brother, and they begin to torment Harold. In the small town where he lives terror is mounting because of the escape from prison of psychopath Paul Harvey. Within days of his escape a horrifying series of murders begins, but there is much worse to come. Pierce and Harvey, both disturbed and guarding terrible secrets, are about to unleash a terror beyond belief.