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Overview: Graham Masterton has published more than thirty-five horror novels and three short story collections: his debut novel, The Manitou, was an instant bestseller. His more recent critically acclaimed novels include The Chosen Child, Trauma, Spirit, and Prey. He is an Edgar Award and Bram Stoker Award-winner and a World Fantasy Award-nominee. In addition to his prolific fiction career, Masterton is also renowned for his bestselling sex guides, including How to Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed and Wild Sex for New Lovers. Born in Edinburgh in 1946, he lives with his wife Wiescka in a Gothic mansion in Cork, Ireland, where he is currently working on his next horror novel.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Horror
Rook & Tooth and Claw (Jim Rook #1-2)
Two books in one.
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 daughter of a Navajo Indian. Susan is beautiful and shy, but all her life she has been closely protected by her two older brothers, Sam and George. And when college senior Brad Dolman takes a fancy to Susan, there are frightening consequences. Brad’s body is found one morning in his automobile, his face and body terribly mutilated – almost as if he has been attacked by a wild animal – and it is Susan’s brothers who are immediately arrested.
Only when two more students are attacked do the police realise that the brothers are innocent, and that there is something terrible lurking around the college campus … something that threatens to transform Susan into the most horrific creature known to Navajo myth. And there is only one man who can save her, a man who can see the oncoming danger – Jim Rook.
It is now left to Jim and his engaging class of slow-lane students to face a shattering confrontation between the cultures of new and ancient America.
3. The Terror
First there was Rook, then came Tooth and Claw. This is the third in Graham Masterton’s Rook supernatural horror series.
4. Snowman
When Jack Hubbard enrolls in West Grove Community College, hes assigned to Jim Rooks remedial English class. Soon the California campus and student body, sweltering in a torrid June, are experiencing mighty strange goings-on: A water fountain freezes solid; a mens room is coated with giant ice crystals; a classmate wearing Jacks sweatshirt is frozen to a handrail and can be removed only minus his arms; the school pool completely freezes, trapping several in its depths and killing one. Whats behind the freaky weather? Spirit-sensitive Rook (Tooth and Claw, 1997, etc.) and his Tarot-reading cat (dont ask) concur that its a vengeful Inuit spirit who was promised Jacks soul by his dad in exchange for leading him to safety from a crisis-strewn Alaska expedition, only to see the old man renege on the deal. Rook takes off for Alaska with both Hubbards, his cat, a magic mirror, and a supply of Snickers ust the equipment that will allow him eventually to confront the spirit demon in Dead Mans Mansion, a northern folly built by a survivor of the Titanic, who may have made his own pact with the hood-shrouded, ice- spewing spirit. If you think Snickers will sustain you on a trek through the tundra, you’ll undoubtedly think Rook is the most beloved teacher since Mr. Chips. A blend of jaunty dialogue, floridly chilling demises, and preposterous phenomena.
5. Swimmer
It enters the water, and takes on the shape of The 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 victim of a vengeful spirit. She says that the police believe she is insane. Jennie Oppenheimer was once a student in Jim Rook’s Special Class II in ’91. And she knows about his psychic powers, that he feels demons running through the streets, that he sees dead people, with their sad, bewildered faces reflecting in windows. So she is convinced that he will have an answer for her – and for her dead son, Mickey. But soon the angry, restless spirit of The Swimmer claims one victim after another – all friends or students of the gifted Jim Rook – and he realises that her hatred is directed at him. One person knows why she is seeking revenge, but only Rook has the strength to fight against the destructive forces of The Swimmer and the ally she has found in water…
6. Dark Room
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 started by something as fanciful as spontaneous combustion. Can they?
Jim Rook, newly returned from a disastrous sojourn in Washington DC, is called upon to assist with the LAPD’s investigation. The police hope that Rook, a special needs teacher with the rare ability to see demons and spirits, can look past the facts of each case and come up with some answers. Meanwhile, a mysterious portrait hung over the fireplace of Rook’s new apartment sends him and his remedial English class off on an investigation into the past, where a myth about photography and the human soul seems unwilling to be forgotten. Could this really be the link he’s looking for? Or will it only lead him
7. Demon’s Door
Jim Rook, the community-college remedial English teacher and investigator of strange phenomena, returns for another adventure. It begins somberly: Rook accidentally runs over and kills his beloved cat, Tiddles. But then one of his students gives him a basket with an unusual gift inside: Tiddles, looking and acting as if nothing had happened. The student tells Jim that this is a gift from Kwisin, a Korean spirit—or perhaps demon—who is expressing gratitude, in advance, for something Jim will do for her (naturally Jim figures this probably isn’t a good sign, and, as usual, he’s right). As with the previous Rook novels, the story is frightening without being terrifying, with a hero who’s a regular guy who happens to possess some psychic abilities that enable him to cross over the boundary between the real and the surreal. A solid entry in the series.
8. 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 entirely in black – but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway? And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over? But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isn’t going to be merely bad: it’s going to be the day from hell. Perhaps quite literally…
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