Graham Masterton

DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe are called to an abandoned London factory where they find a pile of scorched human heads. Soon they are on the trail of a cult that worships a Neolithic god who demands human sacrifices. As Londoners are abducted off the streets to be mutilated and die horrifically, can Patel and Pardoe stop the cult or will they become victims themselves?

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. And now, ninety-five years later, their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards. The neighbors cannot imagine who would have killed such a harmless family all those years ago. But as DS Katie Maguire...

Nemo Frisby used to be a detective. Now he drives an Uber between billionaire mansions in California. But he never lost the nose for the case - and when his housecleaner Trinity Fox discovers a young woman lying dead in her neighborhood, she persuades him to help her prove it wasn't suicide. Their investigation leads them to the Bel Air home of a wealthy movie producer, who built his mansion over an American Indian burial site. Ancient mythology tells...

From the beginning of history, men and women have been haunted by figures of fear-and now, in his latest short story collection, award-winning horror writer Graham Masterton reveals the figures that haunt his own imagination and keep him awake at night. Figures of Fear presents eleven stories, introducing eleven new evils, guaranteed to unsettle and disturb. Meet the little girl whose mother is keeping something important from her, with fearful results...

When Celia Williams is found dead, having burned herself in a lurid act of suicide, her fiancé Lloyd Denman does not seem to be able to go on with his own life, haunted by Celia and their past together. As Lloyd struggles to deal with this tragic event, he learns about a bizarre accident in the California desert in which a busload of people have burned to death. Police speculate that this was a suicide pact, but as Lloyd's investigation reveals connections...

Kimberley, South Africa, 1868: As colonial powers vie for control of the diamond-rich land, Englishman Barney Blitz goes searching for his brother Joel across the South African countryside. When he finally finds him, arrested and condemned to death, Barney performs a daring rescue-but his act of heroism will ultimately lead him down a path of greed, betrayal, and doom. Obsessed with pillaging the greatest diamond field in the world, Barney and Joel...

When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, killing the sons and daughters of many famous TV and movie actors and producers, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility for the blast is claimed by a group who say that they want to put the decadent Western media out of business for good.

It only grows at night. Karen Tandy is a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists puzzle over the growth, Karen's personality drastically begins to change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moves! Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes in contact with Karen understands the very depths of terror. Her body...

In 1857, Collis arrives in San Francisco without a friend or a penny to his name. But he will win and lose plenty of both as he works relentlessly toward his vision of an iron-horse empire. An arrogant, hard-drinking cad prone to gambling and womanizing, Collis is also charismatic, cunning, and ingenious in his pursuit of wealth. But what happened to make Collis Edmonds the man he is today? And what has he lost that has made him so corrupt? Based...

Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows it's going to be a bad day. He nearly runs over someone dressed entirely in black – but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway? And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over? But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isn't going to be merely bad: it's going to be the day from hell. Perhaps quite literally . . .