Tooth And Claw April 1997 About the Author Bibliography Graham
Masterton
Tooth And Claw April 1997
About the Author
Bibliography
Tooth And Claw
On the Native American reservation where she was brought up,
they didn't even dare speak its name. Now it's come to claim her...
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.
'Horror at its best' James Herbert 'Like all good
horror stories, this moves from the familiar and credible to the fanciful and disturbing
… the drama tense, the writing good' The Sunday Times 'Graham Masterton is the grand
master of horror… his genius lies in the way in which he pays homage to ancient myths
while presenting a thriller of the utmost modernity' Le Figaro 'Masterton has always been
in the première league of horror scribes and this proves it' Publishing News
About The
Author
With over 25 horror novels and 50 short stories to his name,
Graham Masterton is one of the world's bestselling horror writers. His work includes The
Manitou, which was filmed with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg in the lead roles; Ritual
and Walkers, which are both currently in preparation for filming, and The Sleepless. He
has won a Special Edgar from Mystery Writers of America; a Silver Medal from West Coast
Review of Books; and is the only non-French author to win the Prix Julia Verlanger with
Family Portrait. He edited Scare Care, an anthology of horror stories for the benefit of
abused and needy children. Graham Masterton lives in Epsom, Surrey with his wife and agent
Wieseka Masterton. They have three sons.
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