Herne

Tom fell into a coma caused by his alcoholism in January 1983, and died in May without having regained consciousness, at St. Mary's Hospital in Herne.

He anxiously descended the ladder, and started homewards at a run, trying not to think of giants, Herne the Hunter, Apollyon lying in wait for Christian, or of the captain with the bleeding hole in his forehead and the corpses round him that remutinied every night on board the bewitched ship.