Strange Seed, a Novel
Everest House, NYC, 1978
Five foreign editions

A new husband and a new home - what more could a bride want? Unfortunately home is an isolated ramshackle farmhouse near and encroaching forest. And each day her husband grows quieter and more introspective. Worse, Rachel cannot ingnore the awesome forest nearby. The woods, have become a hiding place for abandoned children. But are they really abandoned? And most terrible of all - are they really children?

The Woman Next Door, a Novel
Playboy Press, 1981
TOR, 1990

Nursery Tale, a Novel
Playboy Press, 1982
Three foreign editions

Fifteen years ago, two newlyweds perished at the edge of the woods. Now a development of one family homes stands where their farm once was. For Janice McIntyre and her husband this new community by the quiet, lovely woods is a perfect place to raise their expected child. But pregnant women have been know to see and do things that aren't quite normal. Though Janice discounts such silly superstitions, she cannot understand why she's begun to see ghosts. When neighborhood children start disappearing Janice will discover there is a ghost - but only one. The other things are quite substantial. And quite hungry.

When Sam Feary meets his old high-school buddy Abner in Manhattan, he knows something is wrong. He discovers that Abner has stepped over the boundary, into the world of unseen spirits - a world that suddenly becomes a terrifying reality.

The Island, a Novel
TOR, 1988
Victor Gollancz, 1989

Elmo Land was a young man when he first met strange and enigmatic Regina Watson. He'd heard she was crazy, but Elmo was drawn to her even though he knew something wasn't right. Then he noticed the bite marks on her neck. That was the beginning of Elmo's new life--and the beginning of a headlong descent into a dark world of compulsion and desire--and the ever-present need to feed.

Miles Gale's younger son has vanished from the family car in broad daylight. It is up to Miles' older son C.J. to help keep his dad from being arrested for murder. C.J. saw what happened to his brother and only he can "imagine" the way between the two worlds.

Sam Goodlow isn't sure if he's dead or not. Is he? And if he is, who killed him and why? Psychic detective Ryerson Biergarten is just the person to help Sam, because he tracks down the "gateways" between our world and the next - the portals that allow people and ghosts to exchange places.

Sleepeasy, a Novel
Victor Gollancz, 1993
Leisure, 2001

Harry Briggs led a fairly normal life, but now he's dead-- and that's where his story begins. In a little town called Silver Lake, nothing is normal. Harry has become a detective, tough and silent, on the trail of a missing woman and a violent madman. But the town itself is an enigma, filled with ghostly figures that seem to be playing according to someone else's rules.

The School, a Novel
TOR, 1990
Victor Gollancz, 1991

Working together to transform an abandoned public school into a unique bed-and-breakfast, Frank and Allison Hitchcock hope to rekindle their love--a love that has grown thin after the death of their son in a tragic accident. But ghostly children stalk the halls, silent and unsmiling. And in the basement, something unnatural is growing ever stronger.

Erthmun, a Novel
Victor Gollancz, 1995

Jack Erthmun, 37, is a preternaturally good NYPD homicide detective and a weird man. Unmarried, asocial, humorless, he has a habit of, unless he monitors himself, echoing the last words said to him. He doesn't dream but sleeps like a lump of earth, naked, under a mound of blankets with the heat set so high his upstairs neighbor hates him. Fortunately for his work, he seems not to mind odors that sicken his detective partner, Patricia David. As the pair investigates a series of cannibalistic murders, however, he starts to change. He dreams of his early childhood in the foothills of the Adirondacks, and he makes up jokes. Wright stresses the importance of Jack's origins by frequent visits to their locale in the present as well as flashbacks to Jack's toddlerhood. Meanwhile, the murders continue, committed by perps of both genders. The women, all drop-dead gorgeous, prefer to attack nude, and all the culprits attack so fast that they seem to de- and re-materialize. Jack can move awfully fast, too, Patricia discovers. Wright is justly known as a master of quiet horror, conjuring unforgettably creepy atmospheres without indulging in much mayhem (see The School, 1990). That he can quietly creep you out and deluge you with blood is brilliantly demonstrated by this unsettling yarn, which refuses to answer its mysteries (e.g., what laughing man?). Ray Olson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved.

In a dark, strange city which may exist, in a time which may have been, in a cold, cold house as big as Cleveland, on streets the color of blood, among a thousand ghosts, and people who watch but barely speak, a man and a woman, separated by nightmare, search for each other and find an eternal winter, faces they do not recognize, love, torment, sacrifice. The people in this city are everywhere this morning. Thousands of them moving through the streets like a river, flowing here and flowing there, in pink and brown and gray, in and out of the townhouses, in and out of the row-houses. And so quiet. I open the window and I cant hear a thing. Such a great moving mass should at least produce a breeze. They're like blood flowing. "I loved Michael and he loved me, and the question is, do we still love each other even though one of us is dead?"

The Eyes of the Carp, a Novella
Cemetery Dance, 2005

Kevin writes, "Who kills but the strong? And who dies but the willing?" Strange questions, certainly, but, to Kevin, their answers are obvious.

Blue Canoe, a Novel
PS Publications, UK, 2008