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    Walkers: chilling horror from a true master

    By Graham Masterton

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    'One of Britain's finest horror writers' DAILY MAIL

    An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you...

    The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club – but its ornately carved walls hide 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 terrible history. 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
    'God, he's good' STEPHEN KING

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9781786695574
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    Graham Masterton

    Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1946. He worked as a newspaper reporter before taking over joint editorship of the British editions of Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His debut novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976 and sold over one million copies in its first six months. It was adapted into the 1978 film starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Michael Ansara, and Burgess Meredith. Since then, Masterton has written over seventy-five horror novels, thrillers, and historical sagas, as well as published four collections of short stories and edited Scare Care, an anthology of horror stories for the benefit of abused children. He and his wife, Wiescka, have three sons. They live in Cork, Ireland, where Masterton continues to write.  

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    • 4/5
      Eine überaus spannende und interessante Geschichte.
    • 3/5
      Another book from my past tracked down on Amazon, all I remembered about this was the (rather memorable) cover and the fact that when I originally read it a number of years ago I was terrified. So would the book still have the power to scare me now?The story revolves around Jack Reed who stumbles across, quite by accident, an abandoned Gothic mansion which he discovers used to be a mental asylum before being mysteriously closed down and seemingly forgotten about. All of the inmates disappeared one night from the asylum and eager to prevent a scandal or panic with the local residents the authorities hushed this up, claiming they were transferred and closing down the institute. The truth however, as always, is a lot scarier. They did disappear that night … into the walls, and now Jack has to follow them to rescue not only his son but also, it seems, the world from this unholy menace who can literally come out of any surface to drag screaming victims down with them.This book hasn’t lost the power to scare the reader, it’s more visceral than a Stephen king horror novel, the terror is perhaps more in your face but this does seem to come at a cost to the characters. Not only are their actions sometimes inexplicable, they’re also quite un-likeable which is a shame as it is a good wait-till-night-time and read with a flashlight honest to god horror story.
    • 4/5
      Nach einem Unfall entdeckt Jack ein verlassenes Gebäude mitten im Wald und sein Entschluss steht fest: er will es kaufen und in einen Country Club umwandeln. Doch bei einer Besichtigung (mitten in der Nacht…) verschwindet sein Sohn Randy und aus den Wänden beginnen Hände und Gesichter zu ragen, die nur auf eines aus sind: Rache. Es stellt sich heraus, dass es sich bei dem Gebäude um ein ehemaliges Irrenhaus handelt. Eines Nachts verschwanden alle 137 Insassen auf mysteriöse Weise. Ihr Anführer Quintus hatte es geschafft durch Druiden-Magie einen Weg in die Wände und die Erde zu finden, doch durch den Bannkreis eines Pfarrers konnten sie das Gelände der Irrenanstalt nicht verlassen. Jack soll ihnen helfen, den Bann zu brechen, dann bekommt er seinen Sohn wieder.Obwohl von Anfang an klar ist, was sich dort in der Wand befindet, geht es schon auf den ersten Seiten echt schaurig zu. Die Spannung wird nicht durch Versteckspiel und Andeutungen hervorgerufen, sondern durch die offensichtliche Präsenz der Irren, die gezwungen sind, pro Kopf 800 Menschen zu töten, um den Bann der Druiden zu brechen. Das Buch geht nicht (wie ein bisschen erhofft) auf die Hintergrundgeschichten der Insassen ein, sondern konzentriert sich sehr auf die Druidenmagie und das Blutbad, dass die Irren anrichten. Allen voran Quintus, einer der gefährlichsten Patienten der Anstalt.Horror pur. Allein die Vorstellung, dass die Wände sich wölben und Gesichter freigeben, die dann noch mit einem sprechen, jagt dem Leser einen Schauer über den Rücken. Bis zur Mitte des Buches wollte ich dem Buch 4 1/2 Sterne geben, doch zum Ende hin flaute die Geschichte ein bisschen ab, ohne wirklich schlecht zu werden, aber meiner Meinung nach verliert alles etwas an Dynamik, bzw dreht sich im Kreis. Das tut dem Buch aber insgesamt keinen Abbruch….das ich nicht schon früher auf Masterton gestoßen bin…