It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern.Īltogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. 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.Īt the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless.

Lovecraft proud, Masterton's classic continues to stand tall alongside Stephen King's Carrie, Peter Straub's Ghost Story, and other unforgettable literary horror debuts.Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. A longtime favorite for its bold originality, unrelenting creepiness, supernatural shocks, and otherworldly surprises that would have made H. The Manitou introduced the great Graham Masterton to the canon of horror, instantly placing him among the genre's elite. And unless a motley group of ill-prepared defenders can harness an ancient native magic, there will be no stopping the malevolent shaman's terrible rebirth-and no escaping the wholesale carnage it will engender.

Something terrible is returning from the shadows to which it has been confined for centuries-a Native American monstrosity determined to destroy every vestige of the white race that oppressed and preyed upon America's Indians. When the mass is revealed by doctors to contain something living, the stakes skyrocket-not only for Karen and Harry but for all humanity. Phony psychic and conman Harry Erskine never really believed in the occult until Karen Tandy approached him with a rapidly growing tumor on her neck, complaining of dark and disturbing dreams.

An ancient vengeful spirit attempts to return through the body of a terrified young woman in this horror classic by an award-winning 'master of the genre' ( Rocky Mountain News).

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