"I began to read: and then read and read and read. his is 'must' reading for horror fans." - Calgary Herald Rainbow Fish: The Dangerous Deep Leslie Goldman, Melasma - Is This The Clear SolutionVanessa Wild, The New Testament: English Standard VersionCrossway Bibles, John And Romans From Winkler RoadRobert Sutton, Juvenile Conversations On The Botany Of The Bible, Illustrative Of The Power, Wisdom, And Goodness Of God By C. a far-reaching plot linking the horror camps of the Nazis, the frozen wastes of Russia and the work of British Secret Intelligence. the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News "The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace. Darren Harris-Fain and a reproduction of the scarce original jacket art by Peter Curl.
This edition, the first in more than thirty years, includes a new introduction by Prof. In this, his first and still best-known novel, the prolific John Blackburn (1923-1993) introduced the formula he was to employ so successfully in his career, seamlessly blending mystery, horror, and science fiction to create a thrilling bestseller that readers found impossible to put down. Near fine paperback copy edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. But who is responsible? Is it a Soviet experiment gone horribly wrong, the work of a depraved madman, or something else entirely? And can it be stopped? As the plague spreads to England, Kirk's frantic search leads him from the desolate tundra of Russia to the ruins of a Nazi camp, the site of unthinkable wartime atrocities.
After a British ship's crew and a remote Russian village are wiped out in mysterious and horrible fashion, General Charles Kirk of British Foreign Intelligence sets out to investigate. With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity by mutating people into fungoid monsters, it is not hard to see why A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and an instant science-fiction classic.
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