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Michael indeed sets out to locate the school which is in an underground cavern in Scotland.He is helped by "Jacob Weir"a dwarf and a homunculus,created by the noted medieval alchemist Paraclesus and the real owner of the purloined text
The novel goes on to deal with the attemps of this duo to thwart the plans of the Satanic hordes
I am still not persuaded that the author has any real respect for the genre and feel that he fails to take it seriously enouygh
There are too many moments which are as merely flippant,such as the devil conducting interviews with subordinate demons for all the world like a senior executive in a multi-national corporation,and the scene at the school's prom where students dance to rock bands named Styx and Gehenna
My interest is always undermined when I sense a lack of intensity from the writer
Jacob also bids fair to be the most sheerly irritating character in horror literature for an eternity--his circumlocutions and babble of mixed foreign lwords and phrases are teeth grindingly inane
I am in accord with the great antholgist of yore Montague Summers when he argued humour was out of place in the tale of terror.I an very much of the view that it never really works
