Graham Masterton - Ritual And Walkers

RITUAL The little town of Allen's Corners in rural Connecticut hid a secret. A secret that only the children knew. It fed on their Youth, ate away at their innocence, and consumed their very souls with a twisted hunger that could never be revealed nor ever satisfied .. .

Le Reposoir was not on restaurant critic Charlie McLean's itinerary. But since he has his son Martin with him, he was in the mood to try something different. But the restaurant owners were not interested in Charlie's patronage. Or in getting a four-star rating. Martin, however, was another matter. His tender youth would be just right for what they had in mind .. .

WALKERS It didn't take long for jack Reed to decide to convert the huge Gothic building in the woods into an idyllic, up-market country club. But behind the ornately carved walls of The Oaks lurks a past that was anything but idyllic. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths all of whom disappeared one night, never to be seen again. Quintus Miller insists Jack Reed will set them free or his son will die .. .

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.