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The Devil's Looking Glass By Simon Rees The Devil's Looking Glass is the tale of two Cambridge faculty members, Born and Thomas, who conduct experiments in ESP. It is John Born who is the willing subject in these experiments and his friend, Thomas, who conducts the experiments and then records the results. When the rather dark character of Doctor Wiston becomes involved with the two men, however, the experiments start to take Born into darker territories than normal and he becomes haunted/obsessed by a black obsidian mirror called The Devil's Looking Glass. The Devil's Looking Glass is only 188 pages long, but I was in two minds about finishing it. If it had been any longer I probably would not have bothered. I did not enjoy the story and found it hard to identify with or like any of the characters in the book. Therefore I didn't care in the slightest what happened to any of them, and so did not care for the book. The Devil's Looking Glass was first published in 1985  and was a runner up for The Betty Trask Award, so obviously somebody must have enjoyed the strange, dark, and boring journey into the occult that Simon Rees took them on in the pages of this his first novel. If your usual reading matter includes the works of writers such as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and  Richard Laymon etc. the chances are that you probably won't enjoy The Devil's Looking Glass any better than I did  I found the prose to have a rather stuffy and dated feel in comparison to the crisp, modern styles of the aforementioned writers. When it comes to taste, it is each to their own, though, and if you do decide to take a look in The Devil's Looking Glass  I hope that I have, at least, given you an idea of what to expect. HOME