The Executioner Box

Ben Taylor failed to heed the warning: do not open! The question is, what did he unleash?
Inside a crate of assorted junk, Ben Taylor finds a small, mysterious wooden box. It's etched with words in a language he doesn't understand. But the written note attached to it is clear: Do. Not. Open.
Yet he cannot resist the urge to lift the lid . . .
Ben never expected something so evil, dark and powerful would be lurking inside. Soon, strange and terrible things begin to happen: his employee gets attacked by an obscure figure, his wife hurts herself badly during work, people start to act abnormally around him and death follows him like the plague . . .
Clearly Ben's curiosity has unleashed something sinister on the world, and on himself. But what – or who – will he have to sacrifice to get it back in the box?
For fans of eerie tales “on the way to a finale of gut-clutching violence” (Booklist on Death Pact). Avid readers of Stephen King, James Herbert, Ramsey Campbell and Paul Tremblay will relish this latest Cautionary Tale novel from horror author Matt Hilton.

Matt Hilton worked for twenty-three years in private security and the police force in Cumbria. He is a 4th Dan blackbelt and coach in Ju-Jitsu. He is the author of thirteen novels in the Joe Hunter series, ten Grey & Villere thrillers, and Wicked Jenny, the first in the Cautionary Tale series.