Walkers - Graham Masterton

This was only the second Graham Masterton that I had read and having voraciously devoured the first, was I to enjoy an equal feast on this occasion or was I to find the flavour less appetising? THE STORY Jack Reed is driving home one day and has taken the scenic route. What appears to be a child runs out in front of him and he swerves to avoid it. After crashing into a tree he takes a detour from the road and heads out into the undergrowth in search of the child. What he discovers is a huge old gothic mansion, which grabs his attention and inspires his imagination and he forms dreams of leaving his job at Reed Muffler and Tire (which I assumed to be ...  Read the complete review

Jack Reed is driving on a wet night when a blurry shape in the road causes him to crash. There begins a chase with that same blurry figure which he thinks is a child......it leads him to the Oaks, a huge gothic building nestling in the woods. Very soon he finds himself seduced by a very old and alluring lady; albeit a building. He wants to restore the Oaks, turn it into a country club, and give it the grand appearance and standing it deserves. But something lurks in the walls of the old asylum, a past that was anything but idyllic. Sixty years ago it had been a home for crazed psychopaths who one night disappeared, never to be seen again. Whilst viewing the building, ...  Read the complete review

Jack Reed decided to convert an old gothic building," The Oaks" into an upmarket country club but unknown to him was its horrific past. Sixty years before, The Oaks, was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths -all of them disappeared without a trace. Quintus Miller the leader, found a way of disappearing by using " earth magic" as the house was built on a cross road of ley lines. Earth magic was practised by Druids for good, but Quintus had found another use... to escape his prison. Something went very wrong and Quintus and his crazed colleagues where trapped within a maze of the walls. Now the empty house echoes with the screams of the ...  Read the complete review