Perhaps his most brutal novel, Black Angel contains some of the most horrendous scenes of violence Masterton has ever committed to paper. But the truth he unearths is beyond anything he's encountered in the real world - for the killings are paving the way for a force so powerful that the lives of a few innocents will appear unimportant in comparison. Enter Lieutenant Foggia who, assisted by a spiritualist medium, must discover the reason for the slayings. BLACK ANGELĪ ritual killer - nicknamed 'Satan' on account of his exceptional cruelty - stalks the city, killing in terrible ways with no apparent motive. It's only when Jack's son is dragged into the walls of the mansion that he realises what really happened sixty years previously - and just where the inmates have been residing all this time.Īn horrific (but exciting) tale set against a background of Druidism, and full of graphic killings. It was once a mental asylum, home to several psychopaths, all of whom disappeared one night, never to be seen again.

But the building's chequered past is anything but idyllic. It didn't take long for Jack Reed to decide to convert the huge gothic mansion in the woods into an idyllic, up-market country club. One of the most infamous scenes in the book witnesses Charlie being forced to cut off his own finger - and then cook and eat it! WALKERS Ritual is a horror book with a novel slant, and though well written, is at times stomach-turning. In the mood to try something different they stop at Le Reposoir, unaware that most of the meals on the menu are not the a-la-carte range they're used to, but more a mixture of mundane dishes and human d'oves. When restaurant critic Charlie McLean and his son, Martin visit the little town of Allen's Corners in rural Connecticut, little do they realise what they're letting themselves in for. An engaging twist on Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass.

Alongside several well staged scenes of horror, there's an intriguing examination of what it might be like to step inside your own mirror-image. But the mirror he buys from his idol's house is possessed and those who tamper with it risk unleashing a terrible evil that threatens to overwhelm everything in its path.Ī fascinating tale, full of decadence, obsession and grotesque imagery.

Fifty years after his death he has the idea of making a movie that will bring him back to life. A screenwriter becomes obsessed with a Hollywood child star murdered in the 1930s.

Walkers by graham masterton