Whitstable - 1971 Peter Cushing, grief-stricken over the loss of his wife and soul-mate, is walking along a beach near his home. A little boy approaches him, taking him to be the famous vampire-hunter Van Helsing from the Hammer films, begs for his expert help . . . Leytonstone - 1906 Young Alfred Hitchcock is taken by his father to visit the local police station. There he suddenly finds himself, inexplicably, locked up for a crime he knows nothing about―the catalyst for a series of events that will scar, and create, the world's leading Master of Terror . . . Netherwood - 1947 Best-selling black magic novelist Dennis Wheatley finds himself summoned mysteriously to the aid of Aleister Crowley―mystic, reprobate, The Great Beast 666, and dubbed by the press ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’―to help combat a force of genuine evil . . .
