Graham Masterton. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8344-5
Widower Jack Wallace is prompted by his autistic son’s dire visions to investigate a mass suicide at a Boy Scout camp in Michigan. A mysterious woman subsequently leads Jack to explore a connection between the Michigan horror and the disappearance...
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Graham Masterton, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0353-1
Lacing an atmospheric tale of haunting and possession with heavy doses of gore and sex, Masterton (Burial) screams out a story better told in a whisper. High-powered Manhattan lawyer Craig Bellman and his eager-to-please wife, Effie, are touring the
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Graham Masterton, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4991-5
Launching a projected series, Masterton's (The House That Jack Built) new horror novel, published last year in Britain, seems tailored to appeal to youthful tastes. Its characters include a remedial class of college students whose learning...
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Graham Masterton, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5188-8
In the second occult adventure of California community college teacher Jim Rook, Masterton repeats the formula he concocted for its predecessor, Rook: introduce a student troubled by a mythic monster from his or her ethnic heritage, then let the...
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Graham Masterton, Author Severn House Publishers $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6189-4
The prolific Masterton's paranormal thriller gets off to a harrowing start with a truly terrifying act of terrorism. A car packed with TNT, nails and other deadly metal bits explodes in a schoolyard-not in the Middle East but in Hollywood. A group...
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Graham Masterton. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6408-6
This 12-story collection, Masterton’s fifth (after Flights of Fear), offers little festivity, but features vibrant dialogue and distinctively eerie plot twists. Prominent horror writer Masterton provides such wide-ranging delights as voracious...
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Graham Masterton. Severn House, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8189-2
Masterton’s third Sissy Sawyer supernatural mystery (after The Painted Man) shifts the action from New England to Baton Rouge, La. When Sissy’s nephew’s girlfriend, T-Yon, comes to her with questions about a series of horrific nightmares, the...
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Graham Masterton. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8249-3
Frustrated professor Jim Rook finds his psychic gifts an ambiguous asset in his eighth horror-lite tale (after Demon’s Den). On the first day of class, Rook finds the corpses of a girl and eight Persian cats nailed to a classroom ceiling. As more...
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Graham Masterton. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8310-0
Marred by clumsy dialogue, implausible characters, and repetitive, morbid sex, Masterton’s derivative tale of a snowbound town and its insular inhabitants promises little and delivers less. Horror fans will immediately recognize the ever-cheerful...
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Graham Masterton, Author Severn House Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4741-6
Although best known as a novelist, Masterton (Burial) has also earned distinction for the competently crafted short stories he's published in myriad horror anthologies during the past decade. His second collection, however, proves more of a mixed...
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Graham Masterton. Severn, $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8399-5
Veteran horror writer Masterton (Forest Ghost) exhumes a retrograde jumble of action-movie clichés in this uninspiring near-future parable, set in drought-stricken San Bernardino, Calif. Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace is a social worker contending with...
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Graham Masterton. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8492-3
There are more gross-outs than actual scares in Masterton's seventh Harry Erksine novel (after 2009's Blind Panic), and a strong stomach is a prerequisite for readers hoping to make it all the way through this uneven horror novel. Masterton starts...
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Graham Masterton. Severn, $28.95 hardback (208p), ISBN 978-0-7278-8446-6
Masterton (Festival of Fear), a stalwart of horror fiction, writes with an easy assurance that makes even the weaker stories in this collection tolerable. The shorter tales are often predictable, with "gotcha" twists: "Ex-Voto" explains the wisdom...
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Graham Masterton. Head of Zeus (IPG, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (464p ) ISBN 978-1-78185-682-6
Readers with weak constitutions should be prepared for both stomach-churning violence and undistinguished prose in Masterton's clichéd fourth procedural starring Irish Det. Supt. Katie Maguire (after 2014's Red Light). The gross-outs begin in the...
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Graham Masterton. Head of Zeus (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-78408-134-8
Horrors abound in Masterton’s gripping fifth crime novel featuring Cork, Ireland, Det. Supt. Katie Maguire (after 2015’s Taken for Dead). First, a couple walking near Nohaval Cove spot 23 dead horses heaped on the breach at the bottom of a cliff....
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Graham Masterton. Head of Zeus (IPG, dist.), $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-7840-8137-9
British author Masterton’s fast-moving if improbable sixth crime thriller featuring Irish Det. Supt. Katie Maguire (after 2015’s Blood Sisters) intertwines two story lines. The first is the mystery surrounding the mummified corpses of a family found
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Graham Masterton. Head of Zeus (IPG, dist.), $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-78497-629-3
Set in the 1750s, this middling series launch from Edgar-finalist Masterton (Trauma) has some clever touches, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. After a slow start, apothecary Beatrice Scarlet leaves England for New Hampshire with her...
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Occult rituals encoded in a nursery rhyme provide a passport to a topsy-turvy realm of terror in this lively but ragged weave of supernatural horror and alternate-world fantasy. While in London to identify the remains of his murdered expatriate...
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Graham Masterton, Author Tor Books $22.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-312-85681-6
Masterton blends horror and humor with aplomb in this gleefully gruesome second sequel to his best-known novel, The Manitou . Once again the spirit of Misquamacus, the greatest of all Indian medicine men, ventures forth from the world of the dead to
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Graham Masterton, Author Tor Books $19.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-312-85102-6
A stomach-churning, graphically conveyed murder opens this chilling horror tale by the author of The Burning. Devil worship, inexplicable psychic manifestations, ectoplasms run amok, seances, mediums, ghosts and a serial killer known as the Fog City
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Graham Masterton, Author Tor Books $18.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-85121-7
Lloyd Denman of San Diego has everything--the love of a beautiful woman, a thriving restaurant business and money in the bank. But even such bliss is prey to the forces of evil as this horror novel by the author of The Manitou recounts in stunning...
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Graham Masterton, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (486p) ISBN 978-0-312-04572-2
In a return to mainstream fiction, Masterson ( Walkers ) follows the movement of a British family from England to Miami to the outback of Australia in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Aviation tycoon Herbert Lord commits dramatic suicide during an...
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Graham Masterton, Author Tor Books $18.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-312-93201-5
In Masterton's latest, quite effective horror novel, Jack Reed, who runs a muffler shop, comes upon a ``castle'' that serves as the setting for this gruesome horror story. Jack decides to turn the abandoned mansion into a resort--not that he really...
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Graham Masterton, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (468p) ISBN 978-0-312-00608-2
In Chicago of 1949, newspaper magnate Howard Croft Tate faces a sticky decision: Does he blow the whistle on a mobster whose empire is built on slum housing, or does he knuckle under to blackmail? From the day his headstrong heir Morgana leaves her...
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Graham Masterton, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-87382-0
Masterton (Prey; The Manitou) serves up a lethal combination of skillfully written detective story and intense horror, as the citizens of contemporary Warsaw begin finding headless bodies all over town. Is the perpetrator a deranged serial killer or
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Graham Masterton, Author Leisure Books $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4633-8
First published in the U.K. in 1992, this novel has taken seven years to make it across the Atlantic. One wonders whether it was worth the trip. David, a recently divorced father, and his young son, Danny, move into the deserted Fortyfoot House on...
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Graham Masterton, Author . Dorchester/Leisure $7.99 (325p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5790-7
Black magic, mobsters and evil witches hold La La Land hostage, making Masterton's latest batch of chills and chuckles (Prey
) scarier than a writers' strike. Along with most of the city, Det. Dan Fisher, West Hollywood Homicide Division,...
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Graham Masterton, Author . Pocket Star $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6294-5
Masterton's all-too-real psychological thriller takes readers on a terrifying journey into the Portland, Ore., child welfare system, the mysterious world of Native American superstition and the thick web of deceit that friends can weave around...
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Graham Masterton, Author . Severn $28.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6067-5
In British author Masterton's convoluted thriller, Conor O'Neil, a former NYPD cop who now serves as chief of security at a swanky Manhattan jewelry store, breaks up a robbery of his store's vault, only to discover the safe deposit boxes
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Graham Masterton, Author . Severn $26.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5993-8
A thread of weird science adds color to this rough weave of techno-thrills and espionage from the prolific, genre-straddling Masterton (The Doorkeepers
). After a teasing opening chapter filled with abduction and murder in California in 1942, the...
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Graham Masterton, Author . Five Star $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4312-9
Ordinary places imbued with extraordinary evil tie together this quartet of journeyman efforts from horror stalwart Masterton (Swimmer). In "Underbed," a schoolboy explores the subterranean caverns he imagines beneath his bedsheets and...
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Graham Masterton, Author . Signet $6.99 (218p) ISBN 978-0-451-20555-1
Within the span of a couple hundred pages, prolific horror writer Masterton (Spirit; The Manitou, etc.) successfully spins an entertaining, fast and disturbing read packed with dramatic tension, tightly drawn characters and realistic dialogue....
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Graham Masterton, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5697-5
Like the start of a new school year, Masterton's novels of paranormally sensitive English teacher Jim Rook are full of energy and bustle that usually dissipates once the regular routine resumes. This fifth adventure (after Snowman) finds Rook...
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