Graham Masterton

Book List in Order: 121 titles

  • The Children God Forgot

    Forsake the living. Forget the dead. Fear the children... The brand new chilling page-turner from the master of horror A TERRIFYING BIRTH A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains in her stomach. The chief surgeon delivers a living...

  • The House of a Hundred Whispers

    Dartmoor, with its mists, bleak winter weather and overwhelming sense of isolation, is the perfect place to build a prison. It's not a place many would choose to live—yet the Governor of Dartmoor Prison did just that. When Herbert Russell r...

  • Midnight in the Pentagram

    As the clock's pendulum steadily counts down towards the midnight hour, the growing scent of brimstone hangs heavy in the air. The universal symbol of all that is evil, the pentagram, or the inverted pentacle, has been carved in the hardwood floor. I...

  • The Horror Zine's Book of Ghost Stories

    This collection of ghost stories is fresh, varied, and entertaining. Perfect company for long a winter's night. - Owen King, co-author with Stephen King of the New York Times #1 Bestseller Sleeping Beauties Twenty-six brand-new tales of ghosts, spiri...

  • The Last Drop of Blood

    It started with the judge. He was about to sentence five of Cork's most notorious criminals. But his body has just turned up, beaten and broken, on an isolated road in his burned-out car. Now four members of a rival gang have been shot, and in retali...

  • Begging to Die

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    A young girl is found wandering the city alone. Who is she? Someone is killing beggars on the streets of Cork. But why? DCI Katie Maguire, Ireland's most fearless detective, must find out. But while she fights for justice for the homeless, her fiance...

  • Ghost Virus

    Samira had been staring into her mirror all morning before she picked up the small bottle of sulphuric acid and poured it over her forehead. She was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her. What could have brought her to this? DC Jerry Pardoe ...

  • The Hell Candidate

    I opened my eyes. I wasn’t dreaming. I was awake. And right beside me, Jennifer was panting and moaning and bouncing up and down on the bed. I stared harder into the darkness, chilled with fright, and against the dim gray light that filtered in thr...

  • Dead Men Whistling

    A Garda sergeant is found beheaded with an Irish tin whistle sticking out of his neck. He was due to give evidence at a major inquiry into police corruption. The murder sends a clear message to any future whistleblowers: silence is safe. The corrupti...




  • The Coven

    London, 1758. Beatrice Scarlet has returned to London and found work at St. Mary Magdalene's Refuge for fallen women. Beatrice enjoys the work and her apothecary skills are much needed. The home cooperates with a network of wealthy factory owners acr...

  • Black Angel

    A serial killer is on the loose in San Francisco. Only when Lieutenant Larry Foggia is assigned to the case does the true horror of the killer's motive come to light. A ritual killer – nicknamed 'Satan' – stalks the city, killing in terrible ways...

  • The Heirloom

    THERE IS NO REST FROM FEAR. NO COMFORT FROM HORROR -- WHEN YOU SIT UPON…THE HEIRLOOM Ricky Delatolla collected Victorian armoires and Louis XIV settees in the fashionable California home he shared with his wife and happy, healthy young son. But ...

  • Dead Girls Dancing

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire blazes in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars of Irish folk, die in the flames. Their young lives cut short by a tragic accident. But where others see tragedy, DCI Katie Ma...

  • Living Death

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorizing Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all time high. Now they have a missing girl to find, too—and all in the glare of the media spotlight. As Katie clos...

  • Scarlet Widow

    They said the killings were the word of Satan. But Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, detects the hands of men. New Hampshire, 1756: the god-fearing farmers of Sutton are suffering divine punishment for unknown sins. Crops fail, cows die, a...

  • The Drowned

    The River Lee has always been a part of life – and death – in Cork. Now the bodies of five young men have been found by divers, locked in their car on the riverbed. A tragic accident? Or something more sinister? As the volunteer divers begin the ...

  • The Family Portrait

    The first body was found in Europe. She had once been a beautiful young girl, but with exquisite skill someone had carefully teased the skin entirely away from her body, leaving nothing but a flayed and bloody carcass. A full examination of her ruine...

  • Tengu

    Tengu. In Japanese mythology, the Tengu is the most terrible of all demons: a living force of evil that infects its followers with the mad strength of the berserk and the capacity to survive attack from any weapon. Now the demon is unleashed in a dia...

  • Charnel House

    Edgar Award Finalist: A demon-possessed house in San Francisco is out to devour the world in this horror tale by the acclaimed author of The Manitou. A desperate and terrified old man appears at the office of John Hyatt at the San Francisco Departme...

  • Buried

    Five years ago, a well-to-do family from north-east Cork disappeared without trace. Now their mutilated bodies have surfaced in a nearby peat bog, perfectly preserved right down to the smallest smashed fingernail. Katie Maguire suspects the family we...

  • Blood Sisters

    Katie Maguire reopens a cold case in her gripping, gruesome fifth thriller Five years ago, a well-to-do family from northeast Cork disappeared without trace. Now their mutilated bodies have surfaced in a nearby peat bog, perfectly preserved right dow...

  • Taken for Dead

    Katie Maguire hunts down a serial killer in county Cork, in her fourth terrifying crime thriller It is a sunny Saturday in county Cork, and an Irish wedding is in full swing. Drunk uncles are toasting the bride. The Ceilidh band have played for hours...

  • Plague of the Manitou

    Virus expert Anna Grey is disturbed when a dying patient is wheeled past her lab vomiting fountains of blood and screaming like a banshee. To make matters worse, when she examines the man’s corpse, she could swear she hears him whisper: ‘Get it o...

  • Eye for an Eye

    Meet DS Katie Maguire. With her bright green eyes and short red hair, she looks like an Irish pixie. But she is no soft touch. In this exclusive short story, Ireland's most fearless detective hunts down a priest-killer in county Cork. ...

  • Red Light

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    Someone is murdering the brutal pimps who traffic young girls into Cork, in this third Katie Maguire installment In a grimy flat in the city of Cork, a burly man lies dead on a bloodstained mattress. His face is unrecognizable: seven gunshots have s...

  • Drought

    What would happen if the water ran out? Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don’t know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his b...

  • Rules of Duel

    Depressed reporter Tom Crisp, sometimes known as A14, finds himself embroiled in a web of intrigue as he tries to make sense of his incarceration at Tin Type Hall. 'Just telling you' his story unravels in a series of 'silver film' as he finds himself...

  • Forest Ghost

    Modern-day America. Fifteen Boy Scouts and their seven adult leaders are found to have committed suicide in the forest of a scout reservation. One of the dead boys is a friend of Sparky Wallace, whose father Jack runs a Polish restaurant in Chicago. ...

  • Community

    Michael is involved in a car crash which kills his girlfriend. He wakes to find himself in the hospital of a small town in Montana. There he convalesces and gradually becomes acquainted with the local community, most of whom seem to be clever and cha...




  • Broken Angels

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    Someone is brutally killing Catholic priests. Revenge, or something more sinister? Ireland''s first female detective must get to the truth in the second Katie Maguire mystery. One cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a bundle of rag...

  • Garden of Evil

    Jim Rook gets the shock of his life when he returns for a new semester to find something more than unpleasant in his classroom. Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows it’s going to be a bad day. He nearly runs over someone dressed en...

  • White Bones

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    An ancient Irish mystery, and a ritualistic modern-day killer: Ireland''s first female detective Katie Maguire must find the connection. The first in a mystery series from a master of horror.One wet November morning, a field on Meagher''s Farm g...

  • Faces of Fear

    Why won't you look in the mirror at midnight? What are you afraid of? Your own face? Or the thought that you might see something more than your own face, something dark and terrible and strange... Award-winning horror writer Graham Masterton brings y...

  • Holy Terror

    A hot summer day in New York City gives Conor O'Neil no warning of the nightmare which is about to engulf him. After witnessing a fatal robbery, Conor is wrongfully arrested for the crime by a bent cop and immediately goes on the run, fearing for his...

  • The Press

    "Beó duine d'éis a anma" the words read, but what did they mean? After author Pádriac Rosa died, his house immediately went up for auction to pay his debts. Now an auctioneer and two journalists are taking stock of what his four-story gothic house...

  • The Red Hotel

    Sissy Sawyer, an unredeemed hippy, has an uncanny ability to read the future â€" and the lives of those she holds dear may soon depend on it . . . One afternoon, shadows started to flicker along the corridors of The Red Hotel in Baton Rouge, Loui...

  • Festival of Fear

    Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse. Marvel at the mirror dug up in secret ...

  • Flesh and Blood

    Out in a field, deep in the heart of Iowa hog-farming country, Terence Pearson beheads his own children, apparently without reason.But appearances are deceptive. Terence is saving his children from a fate far worse: The Green Traveller, a strange mum...

  • The Sleepless

    A helicopter crashes with a young judge and his family onboard. The wreckage reveals his and his wife's mutilated bodies ‹ but not their daughter's. An insurance investigator attempts to resolve this bizarre case, and in the process he discovers a ...

  • Petrified

    Braydon Harris is convinced God has it in for him. Although Suki, his little girl, seemed thrilled to be kidnapped from her mom’s parents’ house, an electric storm has hit, and it looks like the Lord isn’t going to make it easy for Braydon to g...

  • The Ninth Nightmare

    When a thirteenth century monk was caught having a relationship with a married woman, his punishment was to have his arms and legs amputated. The Monk then turned against God and formed a sinister carnival of clowns and freaks, determined to corrupt ...

  • Demon's Door

    Remedial English teacher and psychic Jim Rook has been feeling out of sorts all summer, and on the first day of the Fall semester he runs over and kills his pet cat, Tiddles. But halfway through his first class, enigmatic new Korean student Kim Dong ...

  • Fire Spirit

    A mesmerizing new story from the master of supernatural horror - Ruth Cutter juggles family life with her career as a top arson investigator, but a series of horrific fires leaves her baffled. The victims seem to have nothing in common except the unn...

  • Blind Panic

    It began without warning. Across the country, people were struck suddenly and totally blind. At first it was just a few, but gradually more and more fell victim to the spreading darkness. Hospital emergency rooms filled to overflowing as highway pile...

  • Basilisk

    The thrilling new horror from this best-selling author . . . - When one of his wife Grace’s patients dies in unusual circumstances, stem-cell researcher Nathan suspects that someone else has been attempting the same experiments as him – bringing ...

  • Death Mask

    Tanneman Rose was a Texas Ranger turned bad. When he and his gang robbed a bank, he brought shame to the badge. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him, but Rose swore he wouldn't die in prison. Instead he died while trying to escape. Time Car...

  • Ghost Music

    The dead cant seek justice can they? - Gideon Lake, a successful composer, is immediately smitten by Kate Solway, who lives below him. They begin a passionate affair, and Kate invites him to Europe so that they can be together without her husband fin...

  • House of Bones

    No one lives for very long in the houses they buy from Mr Vane. Neighbours complain of noises that chill the blood, and then deathly silence. Maybe the occupants have moved away. But then maybe they haven't... John has just joined Mr Vane's estate ag...

  • The 5th Witch

    A new and powerful crime alliance holds Los Angeles in a grip of terror. Anyone who opposes them suffers a horrible fate...but not by human hands. Bizarre accidents, sudden illnesses, inexplicable and gruesome deaths, all eliminate the alliance's ene...




  • The Painted Man

    The new Sissy Sawyer adventure - The discovery of a murdered office worker in the elevator of a condemned building sets in motion a chain of events that will make the streets of Cincinnati run with blood. Police artist Molly and her alternative, chai...

  • Chaos Theory

    A new thriller from the master of suspense - When stuntman Noah Flynn finds a strange medallion with what appear to be ancient cuneiform markings, little does he suspect there will be disastrous consequences for those around him. When the Arabic woul...

  • Edgewise

    Lily Blake's first mistake is getting involved with dangerous forces she doesn't understand. But she is desperate. Her children have been taken. The police are no help. And George Iron Walker claims he can summon the Wendigo, a Native American spirit...

  • Touchy & Feely

    The first in the new Sissy Sawyer series When Fidelio Valdes, a disaffected young Puerto Rican, and Robert Touche, a drunk and aggressive businessman who has lost his job and his wife, meet, they begin a spree of random shootings. The Connecticut Pol...

  • Night Wars

    They are five ordinary people, forced to do battle on the most terrifying field imaginable--the landscape of nightmares. They are the Night Warriors and only they can defeat the evil that has invaded our world through our dreams. Two of the cruel...

  • Descendant

    A supernatural thriller from the master of suspense Californian James Falcon's compelling Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that by the time he reaches college in 1943, he is something of an expert on the strigoi, the legendary, undying v...

  • Manitou Blood

    A bizarre epidemic is sweeping New York City. Doctors can only watch as victims fall prey to a very unusual blood disorder. They become unable to eat solid food, are extremely sensitive to daylight--and they have an irresistible need to drink human b...

  • Innocent Blood

    A chilling tale set in the heart of glamorous Hollywood When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility...

  • Unspeakable

    There are no words... Holly Summers is deaf, but she "hears" thanks to her immense talent for lip-reading. A child welfare officer, Holly moonlights for the Portland, Oregon, police, using her unique gift to aid in criminal investigations -- includi...

  • Famine

    What happens when the richest nation on God's earth is driven to the outer limits of starvation? When the grain crop failed in Kansus it seemed like an isolated incident and no one took much notice. Except Ed Hardesty. Then the blight spread to Calif...

  • Genius

  • Sepsis

    There's a phrase for it - "all-consuming passion." And that's what David and Melanie had for each other. They loved each other so much that they wanted to share everything, body and soul. If they could have done, they would have breathed the same ai...

  • The Hidden World

    When Jessica's parents are tragically killed in a car crash, she goes to live with her grandparents in their big old house in Connecticut. Bullied at her new school because of the injury she suffered in the crash, Jessica finds solace in her favourit...

  • A Terrible Beauty

    There are things I need to know... On a farm in southern Ireland, the dismembered bones of eleven women are found in a common grave, buried eight decades ago. Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire is used to bloodshed, but this ivory litter of human...

  • Swimmer

    He recognises her voice, but she is hysterical. She has no one else to turn to. Her son has been killed, drowned, but the murderer has left no trace. Her distraught tears shake him to his core - he must help, if he can. She says that the child was a ...

  • Trauma

    It takes a lot to disturb Bonnie Winter, a working wife and mother whose job is to clean up crime scenes, as she deals with the horrors of what people do to each other every day, in this chilling short novel that explores the hidden menace in everyda...

  • Bonnie Winter
  • Spirit

    Little Peggy Buchanan is dead, drowned in the family swimming pool on an icy winter day. For her sisters, Elizabeth and Laura, it's a terrible end to their games. But when they recreate her image in snow, they have no idea of the forces they are unle...

  • The Doorkeepers

    Josh Winward arrives in London to discover the truth surrounding the brutal murder of his sister, a bizarre investigation that leads him to Ella, an eccentric young woman whose psychic abilities plunge them into a nightmarish alternate reality filled...

  • The Chosen Child

    American businesswoman Sarah Leonard is supervising the construction of a major new international hotel in post-Cold War Warsaw. If the job doesn't come in on time and under budget, Sarah will be out of a job. Shockingly, a headless body is discovere...

  • Feelings of Fear

    The secretary seeking a cosmopolitan lifestyle in Europe's most sophisticated city; the architect whose secret life is about to become all too public; the delighted beneficiary of a superb inheritance: all very different people trying to make the bes...

  • Manitou Man

  • The House That Jack Built

    Craig Bellman is determined to live at Valhalla, a home in which every inhabitant has met with tragedy, and out of loyalty, his wife Effie agrees to move to the house, ignoring her intuitions, but as death returns to Valhalla, Craig becomes obsessed ...

  • How to Make His Wildest Dreams Come True

    An unadulterated women's guide to wild and passionate sex reveals sure-fire ways to please a man and shares the intimate stories of women who have applied special techniques for a satisfying sexual life. Original....

  • Flights of Fear

  • Cold Turkey

    in Cat Crimes for the Holidays

    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINESIn these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a veterin...

  • Fortnight of Fear

    Fortnight of Fear is one of five in a series of fearsome and frightening collections of short stories. In this volume of fourteen, Graham Masterton will catch your imagination and terrify you until dawn....

  • Burial

    First published in 1991, this is the story of New York City. Friday night. Untouched by anything visible, Mrs Greenberg's furniture starts to slide across the room - and however hard she tries, she can't move it back. Harry Erskine, self-taught fort...

  • Prey

    There's something in the attic of Fortyfoot House. Something that rustles. Something that scampers and scratches. Something with fur, far more terrifying than a rat. Recently divorced, David Williams takes a job restoring Fortyfoot House, a dilapi...

  • Master of Lies

    A brutal murderer--whose ritual slayings are commited in an effort to awaken Satan to begin his slaughter of humankind--needs only one more victim, the San Francisco detective who is hunting him down, to complete his demonic project...

  • Rich

  • The Burning

    While investigating the death of his fiance+a7e, who burned herself to death with a smile on her face, Lloyd Denman learns that she has become a Salamander, a creature of fire and smoke-made flesh. Reprint....

  • Empress

  • The Hymn

    When Celia Williams is found dead, having burned herself in a lurid act of suicide, her fiancé Lloyd Denman doesn?t 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 eve...

  • Lords of the Air

    In 1931, an ebullient British aircraft tycoon's death leaves his three sons to pursue their competing destinies, as James goes to America to found an airline, Richard builds up his father's company, and Michael becomes a pioneer flyer in Australia...

  • Scare Care

  • The Sweetman Curve
  • Railroad

    From “one of the few true masters” an epic novel of ambition and corruption inspired by the nineteenth century railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington (James Herbert).   Originally published under the title A Man of Destiny, Graham...

  • The Wells of Hell

    New Milford, Connecticut is a peaceful old town where nothing much ever happens - until overnight the well water turns a sickly yellow colour ... Then a local boy is murdered in bizarre circumstances and his parents disappear, while rumours spread of...

  • Walkers

    Inmates at The Oaks, an insane asylum, use black magic to kill a priest in a ritual that transplants their spirits into the walls of the place, and then plan the final sacrifice that will set them free...

  • Mirror

    It is said that a mirror can trap a person's soul...Martin Williams is a broke, two-bit screenwriter living in Hollywood, but when he finds the very mirror that once hung in the house of a murdered 1930s child star, he happily spends all he has on it...

  • Charnel House and Other Stories
  • Death Dream

    It was a thing out of a nightmare. While mankind slept it stalked the dream-world, driving men to madness and death. The demon’s bloodlust was terrible; its rage was unstoppable. Decimating the realms of dreams was not enough -- the creature hun...

  • Djinn

  • Feast

  • Revenge of the Manitou

    Evil is reborn... No one believed little Toby Fenner when he described the man in his wardrobe. A man whose face seemed to grow from the very wood. People smiled when Toby insisted he heard voices begging him for help. Until one day Toby woke up as ...

  • Headlines

  • Night Warriors
  • Death Trance

    Desperate to see, once again, his brutally murdered wife and children, grief-stricken Randolph Clare enlists the aid of an Indonesian physician who claims to be able to help him enter the demon-haunted world of the dead...

  • Sacrifice

    Charles Krogh is drawn out of retirement to unravel the cryptic message of a murdered agent and finds himself caught in the midst of a conspiracy so vast that it threatens the balance of world power... Charles Krogh long ago promised he would neve...

  • Lady of Fortune

    They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family''s banking business was there in his children and grandchildren. Their methods were as aggressive as their lifestyle ...

  • Corroboree

    First published in 1984, this is the story of how when Englishman Eyre Walker, newly arrived in Australia, meets the beautiful Charlotte Lindsay, romance quickly blossoms. But theirs is a relationship with fatal consequences. When a late-night tryst ...

  • Picture of Evil
  • Condor

    An unscrupulous senator, who was a secret Nazi collaborator in World War II, releases a deadly new disease in hopes of furthering his bid to become president....

  • The Pariah

    The quaint little seaside town of Granitehead seemed like a perfect place for John and Jane Trenton to start their life together. But disaster strikes and Jane and their unborn child is killed. John’s grief is total, so when he starts to see th...

  • Ikon

    While investigating the disappearance of Air Force Major Willie Monahan, an expert on radar and guided missiles, Dan Korvitz stumbles upon a global conspiracy that could destroy America and the American Dream...

  • Maiden Voyage

  • Solitaire

    An immense diamond pits two brothers in bitter rivalry in this “multifaceted and fascinating” story of nineteenth century South Africa by the author of Railroad (The New York Times).  Kimberley, South Africa, 1868: As colonial powers...

  • The Sphinx

    A horrifying legacy is brought to life. Gene Keiller, a young politician with a reputation to enforce finds his world shattered when he meets a beautiful woman at a party; a woman with a terrifying and secret past. The Sphinx describes a horrifying...

  • Man of Destiny

  • Devils of D-Day

    Unsealing the hatch of a rusty old WWII tank will unleash a demonic nightmare in this novel by “the master of modern horror” (Library Journal).   Thirty-five years have passed since the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day turned the...

  • Plague

    • / General Fiction
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    An outbreak of deadly disease. No cure. Everyone who leaves the plague-zone must be shot... At first the rules were simple: quarantine the city, and let the plague die. So men and women closed their doors, and lived in lockdown, fighting for surviva...

  • The Manitou

    It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovered the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists puzzle over the growth, Karen''s personality begins to change. The doctors decide...

  • Darkroom

    • / Horror
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    A spate of unexplained fires spreads across Los Angeles, killing indiscriminately, tearing up the city, destroying people's faith. There seems to be no probable cause for the fires; arson and murder are not suspected but surely they can't have been s...

  • Night Plague
  • Ritual

    • / Horror
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    A shocking horror story of religion, mystery and cannibalism. When a restaurant critic and his son visit the little town of Allen's Corners in rural Connecticut, they are in for a shock. In the mood to try something different they stop at Le Reposoir...

  • Rook

    • / Horror
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    Jim Rook, a remedial teacher, is able to see ghosts and other spirits. When one of his pupils is arrested for murder, Jim is sure he saw Tee Jay's corrupt uncle Umber at the scene. It transpires that Umber used a voodoo out-of-body technique, so Jim ...

  • Snowman

    • / Horror
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    Jim Rook has the ability to see ghosts and spirits. A young boy, Jack Hubbard, joins Rook's remedial English class while his father is completing a film about his epic journey across Alaska. Shortly after his arrival, five students are found dead....

  • Spirit Jump
  • The Terror

    • / Horror
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  • Tooth and Claw

    • / Horror
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    College teacher Jim Rook has a special talent: a near-death experience in childhood gave him the facility to see ghosts and spirits that nobody else can see.Into his remedial English class at West Grove Community College comes Susan White Bird, the d...

  • Ultimate Evil
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