Douglas E. Winter, de samensteller van deze bundel opmerkelijke verhalen, is een vooraanstaand recensent van horrorliteratuur. Dertien schrijvers kregen vrije baan wat betreft onderwerp en verhaallengte. Meesters van het Kwaad is het resultaat: een kleurrijke verzameling horrorverhalen, waarin zeer uiteenlopende stijlen vertegenwoordigd zijn.
They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found. From the sacred Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whos insatiable taste for young women could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival depends. A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theater . From the Paperback edition.