Walkers: Chilling Horror From a True Master

The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club – but behind its ornately carved walls is 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 strange past. 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.

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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 knows how. He knows even less about the Druid magic that allowed the recent occupants, dangerous mental patients, to "escape" into the building's walls. Led by a vicious brute, Quintus, the "earth walkers" kidnap Jack's son, Randy, and demand the return of the priest who had trapped them in 1926. The priest is "persuaded" to free them from the confinement of the castle's grounds, but they will not be freed from the earth until each has killed 800 people as sacrifices to the gods. Wasting no time, the tribe "walks off" for a murderous orgy of killing, dragging their screaming victims into the "underworld"--where Randy is still a captive. Readers who fancy unrestrained terror won't mind indulging in the wild suspension of disbelief that Masterton (Mirror) demands.
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Graham Masterton (born 1946, Edinburgh) is the bestselling author of over a hundred award-winning horror and crime novels, including the acclaimed Katie Maguire series published by Head of Zeus. www.grahammasterton.co.uk.