The other novels in the series are equally as gruesome as the first featuring unexplained dark forces that take over peoples’ houses, an epidemic that turns ordinary streetwalkers into bloodthirsty cannibals and blinds the US President, and a centuries old Djinn that seeking to unleash terror on the world. Three of the series feature a recurrent character, a Manitou on a mission to exact revenge on the descendants of white men that had taken away Native American land. Confronted with such dark forces, Erskine has to learn, and learn fast, to become a true mystic if he is to confront such deadly adversaries. Harry Erskine had been skeptical of the occult until his girlfriend Karen Tandy started complaining of a growing lump in her neck that she believed was a living being. Nonetheless, given the high demand for his services, he frequently travels to other cities on the Eastern seaboard such as Miami.
When we first come across the enigmatic Erskine, he is a con shaman earning his living through providing fake psychic reading to an assortment of old rich ladies in New York City. The lead character in the series is the self-styled psychic Harry Erskine. That being said the bulk of the novels have been published between 19. Given that Graham dabs in so many other genres and has many other series under his belt, the publication of the six novels in the series has been sporadic. 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.The Harry Erskine series is a set of novels by renowned British horror novelist Graham Masterton. 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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