Night Sisters

Night Sisters
John Pritchard

CLINICIANSA word that will come to haunt Casualty Sister Rachel Young through the dark nights ahead.CLINICIANSA word she hears from a terrified patient, brought dying into her department after driving a stolen car straight into a brick wall. Still trying to escape from someone who has surgically mutilated his brain.CLINICIANSHe isn’t the first; he won’t be the last. People are disappearing in the darkness: the lost ones, with no shelter from the night. Those that are found again have hideous post-operative injuries.CLINICIANSFor centuries they have pursued their cold and merciless quest for knowledge, leaving death and mutilation in their wake. And tonight they have come for Rachel Young. for her, they have a special role …

Copyright (#ulink_3eaf40e8-b167-5ca0-99f1-ea618556da13)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © John Pritchard 1993

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A version of the opening chapter of this novel first appeared in The Dark Side magazine under the title On Her Deathbed.

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‘A good old-fashioned tale of battling evil, which turns into a roller-coaster ride to heights of gut-churning suspense and real terror’

RAMSAY CAMPBELL

‘A taut and fast-moving tale with bags of authentic detail and a slam-bang finale’

STEPHEN GALLAGHER

‘Night Sisters is one of the creepiest and most shocking novels I’ve read in a long, long, time. The writing is superb. The story is brilliantly eerie, marked by stunning shocks of violence’

RICHARD LAYMON

Dedication (#ulink_68279b72-f5f4-5271-97de-a4e9cf346f93)

TO

THE COMPANY OF BRIGHT ANGELS

(sweet dreams …)

Epigraph (#ulink_10feac86-1f29-53b3-98eb-b049d9b3d38e)

Don’t be afraid now:

Just walk on in.

The Sisters of Mercy

Contents

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Title Page (#u61ec20d7-15d1-5b91-b22f-36a32d50642f)

Copyright (#ulink_a1289e00-652a-5bd2-a304-8df25f514392)

Praise (#ulink_016a600d-e496-5207-9260-b5d88e4a8ef6)

Dedication (#ulink_a2f66897-737c-5d05-9df7-664736c0e595)

Epigraph (#ulink_bdf00cd4-552f-5b73-85e7-0df2d6f250ba)

PART ONE: Night Casualties (#ulink_4ba73902-946f-54fd-b6a0-3afef2e15b0a)

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