The sandman

A splendidly macabre achievement. As an account of a descent into homicidal mania, it has seldom been bettered."" - Time Out. ""Confounds received notions of good taste-unspeakable acts are reported with an unwavering reasonableness essential to the comic impact and attesting to the deftness of Gibson's control"" - T.L.S. Black comedy has never been blacker. Growing up in a small hotel in a shabby seaside town, Mackerel Burton has no idea that he is to grow up to become a slick and ruthless serial killer. A lonely boy, he amuses himself by perfecting his conjuring tricks, but slowly the magic turns to a darker kind, and soon he finds himself stalking the streets in search of random and innocent victims. He has become The Sandman.