Walkers: Chilling horror from a true master

Written by Graham Masterton

Narrated by Andy Ingalls

An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you...

The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club – but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. One night all of them disappeared, never to be seen again.

Jack Reed, the owner of The Oaks, has no idea about the building's terrible history. 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...

'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' PETER JAMES

• Language: English
• Publisher: QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Jun 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9781004125807

Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1946. He worked as a newspaper reporter before taking over joint editorship of the British editions of Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His debut novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976 and sold over one million copies in its first six months. It was adapted into the 1978 film starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Michael Ansara, and Burgess Meredith. Since then, Masterton has written over seventy-five horror novels, thrillers, and historical sagas, as well as published four collections of short stories and edited Scare Care, an anthology of horror stories for the benefit of abused children. He and his wife, Wiescka, have three sons. They live in Cork, Ireland, where Masterton continues to write.  

Reviews for Walkers

[stm114 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The build up was slow, then everything started happening too fast. The plot was ok-ish but once Jack started traveling it just got silly. Would not recommend.

[RichardKevinWilson · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

As being a fan of Masterton's since the early 1970's and having read MOST of his horror classics....this one was so strangely different than his classic horrors from back then, such as 'The Manitou' books, 'The Djinn', 'Charnel House' and so many others, that I did not know if I liked this or not. Once I changed the train of my thoughts on the story, and then realized 'this IS a strange tale......' I started liking it more.

NO author can write more disturbing body horror and torture better than Masterton IMO, and you might feel different, that is fine.

The story takes the lore and wonderment of the Druids and what they believed (still do?) in, and turns it into a modern take on 1950's sci fi creature features and gives you a story of 'earth walkers' which are these weird assed creatures that are/were human and they live underground, and can literally pull people down thru the cement and tear them to pieces! Yes, now is that sci fi Horror, or what it called Cosmic Horror? You tell me.

It was fun in the fact that it is very gory in scenes, but not one of my favorites, or one of Graham Mastertons books that I would ever read again.

Would still recommend it to anyone who is looking for a very weird horror story that has a lot of gory body horror.

3 slime blobs all the way up.

[Fiona Krawczuk · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Interesting ideas, but very dated attitudes towards women.
ok read.