
Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step. 2 It is Nevill's third published novel and was followed by his 2012 work Last Days. 1 The book was first released in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2011 through Pan Macmillan and was released in the United States on 14 February 2012 through Macmillan imprint St. The residue of old rites and pagan sacrifice for something that still exists in the forest. The Ritual is a 2011 British horror novel by Adam Nevill. Ancient artefacts decorate the walls and there are bones scattered upon the dry floors. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn’t possibly get any worse.īut then they stumble across an old habitation. With limited fitness and experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. In The Ritual, four old university friends set out into the Scandinavian wilderness, to escape the problems of their lives and reconnect. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But it was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition. The rain fell hard and cold, the white sun never broke through the low grey cloud, and they were lost. And on the third day things did not get better. The Ritual is Adam Nevills horror novel depicting a group of friends lost in a remote wilderness in Sweden where something supernatural lurks.
