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. Jack Reed, the owner of The Oaks, has no idea about the building's terrible history. One night all of them disappeared, never to be seen again. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. Tor Books, 18.95 (345pp) ISBN 978-1-5 In Masterton's latest, quite effective horror novel, Jack Reed, who runs a muffler shop, comes upon. The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club - but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. 'One of Britain's finest horror writers' DAILY MAIL An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you.

It is only when Jack's son is dragged into the walls of the mansion that he. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the Father of Anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: A Life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalized by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the Life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).'One of Britain's finest horror writers' DAILY MAIL An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you.

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Masters is also known for his eclectic range of non-fiction titles. A dark and horrifying tale of Druidism, madness and murder. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities. Anthony Masters is the author of eleven works of adult fiction - notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) - and, prior to his death, was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection.

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