Books by Robert McCammon and Complete Book Reviews
Robert McCammon, Author . Pocket $16 (645p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5111-9
Set in Manhattan in 1703, this spellbinding sequel to Speaks the Nightbird
(2002) from bestseller McCammon finds Matthew Corbett, a 23-year-old magistrate’s clerk, on the trail of the Masker, a killer who stalks prominent businessmen. Matthew
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Robert McCammon, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $75 (608p) ISBN 978-1-59606-315-0
Originally published in 1989, this powerful novel fuses WWII espionage thriller and dark fantasy. Richly detailed, intricately plotted, fast-paced historical suspense is enhanced by McCammon's unique take on the werewolf myth. Russian-born British...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $26.95 (520p) ISBN 978-1-59606-341-9
McCammon (Mister Slaughter) delivers a complex, mind-blowing story of a rock band's last days. The Five—rage-filled frontman Nomad, lesbian drummer Berke, retro-inspired keyboardist Terry, self-possessed bassist Mike, and mellow vocalist/guitarist...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $75 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59606-407-2
Prolific paranormal author McCammon (The Five) returns to his roots with this shiny new edition of his richly written 1978 debut. Jeffrey Harper Raines, born of a violent rape, grows up in various orphanages where he torments nuns, terrorizes the...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $75 (386p) ISBN 978-1-59606-497-3
McCammon explores the secret geography of nightmare in this creepy, densely layered tale of ancient pagan practices re-enacted in smalltown America. Scarred Vietnam veteran Evan Reid relocates with his wife and daughter to the Pennsylvania village...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (328p) ISBN 978-1-59606-536-9
The titular hunter of these six paranormal espionage tales is Michael Gallatin, a dapper lycanthrope recruited by the British Secret Service (in 1989’s The Wolf’s Hour) to take covert part in the struggle against Nazi Germany. McCammon has a sure...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (152p) ISBN 978-1-59606-537-6
Southern gothicist and paranormal historian McCammon (Gone South; The Wolf’s Hour) combines the two genres in this fun, fast novella. As Confederate soldier Trevor Lawson lay wounded at Shiloh, the vampire queen LaRouge turned him. Struggling to...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $75 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59606-572-7
While collectors will appreciate this reissue of bestselling horror legend McCammon’s third novel (published in 1980), it doesn’t offer much for the casual genre fan. During WWII, Allied sub chasers sink a Nazi U-boat that’s been terrorizing...
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59606-703-5
Genre-busting author McCammon (The River of Souls) pulls out all the stops for this exhilarating alien-invasion epic, which harkens back to his 1987 blockbuster, Swan Song. The spectacular opening introduces an amnesiac teenage boy who abruptly...
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Robert McCammon. Cemetery Dance, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58767-613-0
Race relations are one subject of this seductive slice of supernatural noir set in 1934 New Orleans. John “Pearly” Partner and Ginger LaFrance, a pair of homicidal grifters, cook up a scheme to kidnap a wealthy white businessman’s son and daughter,...
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Robert McCammon. Lividian, $37.50 (476p) ISBN 978-1-941971-09-3
Set in 1704, bestseller McCammon’s gonzo eighth novel featuring problem-solver Matthew Corbett picks up where 2019’s Cardinal Black left off. To save Berry Grigsby, the woman Matthew loves, he has allied himself with Prof. Danton Fell, a master...
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Robert R. McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59606-466-9
Problem-solver Matthew Corbett’s past comes back to haunt him in McCammon’s intriguing fourth historical thriller (after 2010’s Mister Slaughter). Shanghaied in 1704 from Manhattan to Pendulum Island, the Bermuda home of his nemesis, criminal...
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Robert R. McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-59606-630-4
Macabre surprises abound in McCammon’s entertaining fifth Matthew Corbett historical (after 2012’s Providence Rider). In the summer of 1703, while on a visit to Charles Town in the Carolina colony, “problem-solver” Matthew and Magnus Muldoon, his “bi
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean, $26.95 (536p) ISBN 978-1-59606-775-2
McCammon’s rousing sixth yarn featuring Matthew Corbett (after 2014’s The River of Souls) transports the early 18th-century American problem solver across the Atlantic to London, where he’s clapped into hellish Newgate Prison on murder charges....
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Robert McCammon. Subterranean
(www.subterraneanpress.com), $80 (616p) ISBN 978-1-59606-562-8
Apocalyptic catastrophe collides with deeply intimate fears in this hardcover incarnation of McCammon’s 1981 paperback horror novel. L.A. homicide detective Andy Palatazin’s search for “The Roach,” a serial killer, entangles him in a plague of...
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