I would like to thank Mike Howard very much for his inaccurate, unbalanced and prejudicial review of my new book The Dark Worship (Weekend, Aug 24).

His warped piece is misleading because the book's contents are factual, not fantasy, having been properly sourced and those sources are named in the text.

Written purely from an investigative viewpoint, the book covers the history and pre-history of the dark worship - its influence on and within society and its relevance to current events.

If Mr Howard can't cope with that, he shouldn't bother at all.

-Toyne Newton, Eirene Road, Goring