
'Family Portrait' by Graham Masterton is a horror novel that follows the Gray family and the Pearson family, who are tied together by a central conundrum and a temporal anomaly. The narrative structure is described as insinuating scare and chill, with a thread of the supernatural running through the story. The book is praised for its intricate plot twists and surprise elements, making it a nearly 500-page masterwork that keeps readers on their toes until the end.
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The book contains graphic violence, including depictions of skinning alive.
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One of the few true masters of the horror genre.' James Herbert, author of Others The first body was found in Europe. She had once been a beautiful young girl, but with exquisite skill someone had carefully teased the skin entirely away from her body, leaving nothing but a flayed and bloody carcass. A full examination of her ruined body reveals an horrific truth: She had been skinned alive. The second blood-raw corpse turned up in New England. Followed soon after by another, this time a victim of extreme decomposition, a mess of flesh convulsing with maggots. When a mysterious, crumbling painting is implicated in the deaths it seems that the investigating team has resorted to madness. But this rotten painting hides a terrifying family secret.
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