Graham Masterton

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Discovering Graham Masterton

I first discovered Graham Masterton is my local library while looking for Stephen King substitutes (I'd read them all). I can't remember which book I read first but I think it was Pariah. The one thing that really struck me about Graham Masterton (other than the sex scenes which made Stephen King look like he came from a nursery - I was only fourteen at the time), was the downbeat endings. Really really downbeat and unexpected. The ending of Tengu in particular wiped me out.

One really funny thing about Graham Masterton is that he has an incredible range compared to most horror writers. He writes a lot of thrillers, manuals and romantic/epic fiction. I used to laugh when I worked in a library and the elderly ladies would come in and tell me how much they enjoyed reading "Solitaire" or "Railroad". Then I'd see them leaving with a copy of Tengu or Sacrifice under their arms... I wonder how many heart failures that caused.

Oh, and one final memory. The cover of Tengu (the face on the banner) actually made it hard for me to sleep at 14.

The Top Three

Some good Graham Masterton related sites

• The Official Graham Masterton Site

What I've Read (and what's left)

Anything in boldface is still outstanding (I haven't read it).

The Harry Erskine Series

1. The Manitou (1976)
2. The Djinn (1978)
3. Revenge of the Manitou (1979)
4. Burial (1992)
5. Manitou Blood (2005)
6. Blind Panic (2009)

The Night Warriors Series

1. Night Warriors (1987)
2. Death Dream (1988)
3. Night Plague (1991)
4. Night Wars (2006)
5. The Ninth Nightmare (2011)

Jim Rook Series

1. Rook (1996)
2. Tooth and Claw (1997)
3. The Terror (1997)
4. Snowman (1999)
5. The Swimmer (2001)
6. Darkroom (2004)
7. Demon's Door (2010)
8. Garden of Evil (2012)

Katie Maguire Series

1. A Terrible Beauty / White Bones (2003)
2. Broken Angels (2013)
3. Red Light (2014)
4. Taken for Dead (2015)
5. Blood Sisters (2015)
6. Eye for an Eye (2015)
7. Buried (2015)
8. Living Death (2016)
9. The Drowned (2016)
10. Dead Girls Dancing (2016)
11. Dead Men Whistling (2017)
12. Begging to Die (2019)
13. The Last Drop of Blood (2020)

Sissy Sawyer Series

1. Touchy and Feely (2005)
2. The Painted Man (2007)
3. The Red Hotel (2012)

Beatrice Scarlet Series

1. Scarlet Widow (2016)
2. The Coven (2017)

Standalone Novels

1. 5th Witch, The (2008)
2. Basilisk (2009)
3. Black Angel (1991)
4. Bonnie Winter (2001)
5. Chaos Theory (2007)
6. Charnel House (1978)
7. Chosen Child, The (1997)
8. Community (2013)
9. Condor (1984)
10. Corroboree (1984)
11. Death Trance (1986)
12. Descendant (2006)
13. Devil in Gray, The (2004)
14. Devils of D-Day, The (1978)
15. Doorkeepers, The (2001)
16. Drought (2014)
17. Edgewise (2006)
18. Empress (1990)
19. Family Portrait (1985)
20. Famine (1981)
21. Fire Spirit (2010)
22. Fireflash 5 (1977)
23. Flesh and Blood (1994)
24. Forest Ghost (2013)
25. Genius (2003)
26. Ghost Music (2008)
27. Ghost Virus (2018)
28. Hair Raiser (2001)
29. Headlines (1986)
30. Heartbreaker (1978)
31. Heirloom, The (1982)
32. Hell Candidate, The (1980)
33. Hidden World, The (2003)
34. Holy Terror (2004)
35. House That Jack Built, The (1996)
36. House of Bones (1998)
37. House of a Hundred Whispers, The (2020)
38. Hymn, The (1990)
39. Ikon (1983)
40. Innocent Blood (2004)
41. Inserts (1976)
42. Kingdom of the Blind (1998)
43. Lady of Fortune (1984)
44. Lords of the Air (1988)
45. Maiden Voyage (1984)
46. Man of Destiny (1981)
47. Mirror (1988)
48. Pariah, The (1983)
49. Petrified (2011)
50. Phobia (1980)
51. Plague (1977)
52. Plague of Angels (1999)
53. Prey (1992)
54. Railroad (1981)
55. Rich (1979)
56. Ritual (1988)
57. Rules of Duel (2010)
58. Sacrifice (1985)
59. Silver (1986)
60. Sleepless, The (1993)
61. Solitaire (1982)
62. Sphinx, The (1978)
63. Spirit (1995)
64. Sweetman Curve, The (1979)
65. Tengu (1983)
66. Trauma (2002)
67. Unspeakable (2005)
68. Walkers (1989)
69. Wells of Hell, The (1979)

Short Stories

1. Hurry Monster (1988)
2. Sepsis (2003)
3. The Press (2012)

Short Story Collections

1. Thirteen More Tales of Horror (1994)
2. Fortnight of Fear (1994)
3. Flights of Fear (1995)
4. Faces of Fear (1995)
5. Manitou Man: The World of Graham Masterton (1998)
6. Feelings of Fear (2000)
7. Charnel House and Other Stories (2002)
8. Grease Monkey and Other Tales of Erotic Horror (2011)
9. Festival of Fear (2012)

Anthologies

1. Scare Care (1989)
2. Figures of Fear (2015)