Books by Graham Masterton

John and Petulia Pearson have bought the old hospital and are excited about their plans to convert it into a seaside hotel. But before long, they start to hear coughs and groans in the middle of the night. And when they discover the late Dr Grayling's medical notes, it becomes clear that the noises are not in their head...

A Native American spirit is unearthed in the present day. The new horror standalone from the author of The Manitou.

An outbreak of deadly disease. No cure. Everyone who leaves the plague-zone must be shot... At first the rules were simple: quarantine the city, and let the plague die. So men and women closed their doors, and lived in lockdown, fighting for survival against a disease as contagious and destructive as the Black Death. A disease for which there was no known cure. But the plague did not die. And so, at lunchtime on a Friday afternoon, the President announces the new rules. Every American should take up arms to protect the disease-free zones. Anyone attempting to leave the plague-zone MUST be shot... A gripping suspense thriller about an outbreak of plague in the USA, this is perfect for fans of Dean Koontz or Stephen King.

A dark and horrifying tale of Druidism, madness and murder. The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club - but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. One night all of them disappeared, never to be seen again.Jack Reed, the owner of The Oaks, has no idea about the building's terrible history. It is only when Jack's son is dragged into the walls of the mansion that he realises what happened sixty years ago - and just where the inmates have been living all this time...'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' PETER JAMES.'A true master of horror' JAMES HERBERT.

Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the new horror from Graham Masterton.

A rash of strange and horrifying births sweeps through London in this new horror thriller from Graham Masterton.

A Tudor mansion on the edge of Dartmoor guards the moor's secrets... The new standalone horror novel from Graham Masterton.

The final book in the Katie Maguire series. A judge's body is found on an isolated road. Four gang members have been shot. Three civilians have been blown up. To Katie's horror, Cork is becoming a gang battleground like Dublin.

No one lives for very long in the houses they buy from Mr Vane. Neighbours complain of noises that chill the blood, and then deathly silence. Maybe the occupants have moved away, but then again, maybe they haven't.John has joined Mr Vane's estate agency. He thinks houses are for living in - happily ever after. He has no idea about the hidden forces inside Mr Vane's properties, nor about their strange appetites, but he's about to find out.First published in 1998, House of Bones is a chilling, gruesome, horror novel.

They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family's banking business was there in his children and grandchildren. Their methods were as aggressive as their lifestyle was opulent, and they could stab each other in the back or drive a competitor to ruin as calmly as a bank clerk counting out change. In time, their empire was to encompass the great financial capitals of the world. As it grew, so too did their power and influence.First published in 1984, Lady of Fortune is the story of the Watson family, and of the remarkable woman at its head. Graham Masterton has created a pulsating saga of seven decades of ambition and ruthlessness, of public feuding and private passions, of a will to succeed so powerful that not even the ties of kinship could hope to contain it.

A virus spreads through London, forcing those infected to commit horrific crimes.

A hot summer day in New York City gives Conor O'Neil no warning of the nightmare about to engulf him. After witnessing a fatal robbery, Conor escapes wrongful arrest and immediately goes on the run, fearing for his life. He discovers that an eerie pair of stage hypnotists, a fervent Southern Baptist, and a very sinister televangelist are involved in the heist, the proceeds of which are to fund something unthinkable yet all too possible. Conor's desperate need to clear his name takes him on a terrifying trip to a distant and hostile land, where he must use all of his remaining strength to survive the most deadly weapon of all.

Katie Maguire, Ireland's most fearless detective, hunts a chilling killer on the streets of Cork.

Police corruption, whistleblowers and murder. DCI Katie Maguire investigates a string of police fatalities in the new thriller from Graham Masterton.

Dive into fourteen tales of non-themed horror, with short stories and dark poems by some of the best horror writers in the world, including a story by the master himself, Graham Masterton.Allow the very first instalment of Tales From the Lake to transport you to lakeside terror in "Lover, Come Back to Me," "Lady of Lost Lake," and "Game On"; journey to the basement of your local pet store in "Dead Pull" and your neighbourhood pub in "O'Halloran's"; experience the apocalypse in "Devil's Night"; travel to Africa in "Witch-Compass" and "The Reunion"; spend time with talking dolls in "Don't Look at Me"; experience the horrors of drug addiction from close up in "Junksick"; and climb a ladder to the heavens in "Perrollo's Ladder."Tales From the Lake Vol.1 includes the winning stories from the 2013 Tales From the Lake Horror Writing Competition: a nautical tale in Jenn Loring's "The Art of Wrecking"; a bizarre story of strange addictions in J. Daniel Stone's "Alternative Muses"; and a cult horror story in the jungles of South America in William Ritchey's "Las Maquinas." Introduction by Rocky Wood - the late president of the HWA. Artwork by award-winning artist Ben Baldwin. Edited by Joe Mynhardt."This extremely neat, thoroughly edited anthology of carefully selected tales is another proud feather in the cap of Crystal Lake Publishing. For a collection of tales that will thrill, horrify, and generally captivate all readers of horror and dark fantasy, I highly recommend Tales from the Lake Vol.1 as a must-read!" - Ellen Fritz, Books4Tomorrow

A collection of short stories from the master of spine-chilling terrorThe secretary seeking a cosmopolitan lifestyle in Europe's most sophisticated city; the architect whose secret life is about to become all too public; the delighted beneficiary of a superb inheritance: all very different people trying to make the best of their ordinary lives. But all of them will turn out to have something in common when they are thrown in at the deep end in situations that will turn on its head everything they have ever taken for granted.When drowning in a puddle becomes a real danger; when an imaginary friend becomes a terrifying threat; when the gift of a lifetime turns out to have come from a formidable -and less than friendly - source: only then will the cast of characters in this deeply chilling collection of stories begin to understand what the feeling of fear really means.

Julia Winward has been missing for nearly a year. When her mutilated body is discovered in the Thames, her brother Josh travels to London from America, determined to find out what happened to her during that lost time. But nothing Josh discovers makes any sense and he soon unearths a terrible secret. Julia had been working for a company that shut down sixty years ago, and living at an address that hadn't existed since World War II. His investigation leads him to Ella, an eccentric young woman whose psychic abilities plunge them into a nightmarish alternate reality filled with unspeakable horror.First published in 2001, The Doorkeepers is a thriller of horrifying dimensions that will keep you gripped until the last page.

First published in 1984, this is the story of how when Englishman Eyre Walker, newly arrived in Australia, meets the beautiful Charlotte Lindsay, romance quickly blossoms. But theirs is a relationship with fatal consequences. When a late-night tryst is interrupted by Charlotte's irate father, Walker's young Aborigine servant is brutally killed by guard dogs. A man with a conscience, Walker is anxious to atone for the boy's death by giving him a proper Aboriginal burial. And so he begins a marathon journey into the outback to search for Corroboree, the gathering of nomadic tribes for the age-old ritual. The expedition that he mounts is sponsored by Captain Sturt, a celebrated explorer who believes a huge ocean lies in the middle of Australia. But Walker finds something else in the middle of that vast continent, and the price he must pay for surviving it will scar him for life...

Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, returns to 18th-century London to solve a murder case steeped in witchcraft.

Twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse.

Katie Maguire knows that in this part of Ireland, the past can never stay buried... In Blarney, Cork, an old millworker's cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this house. Now their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards. As DS Katie Maguire investigates a ninety-five-year-old murder, the flames of old family rivalries flare up once more ... and Katie is caught in the crossfire.

The girl who teetered out of the doorway was exactly who they were looking for... DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorising Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all time high. Now they have a missing girl to find too - and all in the glare of the media spotlight. As Katie closes in on the truth, she realises that the three cases might be connected. But with every second she spends investigating, the clock ticks on for the missing girl, trapped in a living death... What people are saying about LIVING DEATH: 'Riveted from start to finish' 'A first class detection novel' 'Amazing, the man is a genius' 'As always, brilliant'

Bonnie''s job - cleaning up after violent homicides - is not for the faint hearted. But for Bonnie it''s a business she has built from the ground up; a service that she can be proud of. By day she sells make-up under her rather too amorous boss, a strange but necessary contrast to her gruesome night job. Working two jobs isn''t easy, but with a husband like Duke, an unemployed drunk, she needs the money. Blood soaked carpets and bullet holed plaster work might have become the norm, but when she notices a connection between a spate of senseless murders in which people inexplicably kill their loved ones, her tough exterior starts to crack. The links she sees sound crazy even to her, and can only be explained by the supernatural.Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award 2003''One of the few true masters of the horror genre'' -James Herbert''Masterton is a crowd pleaser, filling his pages with sparky, appealing dialogue and visceral grue'' Time Out''Masterton''s novels are charming, dangerous, and frightening ... but all based on enormous erudition'' L''Expres