Robert Masello Books in Order

Drawing on his Mademoiselle column, personal observations and readers' letters, Masello offers single women advice on romance from a male perspective. Anecdotes explore meeting potential partners, identifying compatible men and navigating the uncertainties of dating.

Peter Constantine and his wife Meg inherit a remote estate, escaping their financial worries. Exploring its woods, Peter encounters alluring music and a mysterious woman whose invitation draws him toward an ancient ritual and a blood curse.

Musician Jack Logan revives a dead man on camera, exposing his extraordinary ability to the world. As reporters and scientists pursue him, restless souls, including his mother, reach across death's boundary and threaten to consume his life.

Lucien carries a living secret from Southeast Asia into the luxurious world of the wealthy. It grants his desires for money, power and pleasure, but the demon behind his fortune demands a price in human souls.

Masello collects quotations and stories about love from both famous figures and ordinary people. This brief anthology brings their reflections together, offering a range of voices and personal observations on a subject shared across very different lives.

This nonfiction survey explores fallen angels, demons and other dark spirits through mythology, art and literature. Beginning with Lucifer's rebellion, Masello recounts the legends and beliefs surrounding beings imagined as servants of darkness across the centuries.

This practical guide addresses everyday skills and social expectations for men, from grooming and etiquette to cooking, buying a suit and job interviews. Short essays, anecdotes and lists fill gaps in a conventional masculine education.

Masello traces occult practices from ancient Babylon onward, exploring necromancy, sorcery, astrology, alchemy and prophecy. Historical accounts, mythology and illustrations examine the people who sought hidden powers and the ideas their experiments contributed to human thought.

Drawing on television-writing experience, Masello explains how aspiring writers can enter the industry. He covers spec scripts, agents, collaborators, staff jobs, protecting ideas, screen credit and payments, offering anecdotes about the practical demands behind television careers.

Masello follows the publishing process from choosing a topic and preparing a proposal to finding an agent, understanding contracts and promoting a finished book. His experiences illustrate the decisions and setbacks facing aspiring authors at each stage.

Masello presents 101 unconventional lessons intended to improve writing, productivity and the working writer's life. His irreverent advice addresses fiction, journalism, screenwriting and nonfiction, challenging familiar habits with short practical suggestions drawn from his professional experience.

A strange fossil beneath an Italian lake and an ancient parchment in the Judaean desert reveal linked mysteries. Paleontologist Carter Cox must decipher their messages as an unleashed evil challenges his scientific understanding of the world.

Art curator Beth Cox restores a manuscript depicting creatures supposedly from Eden, while her paleontologist husband Carter investigates discoveries at the La Brea Tar Pits. Their work brings ancient illustrations and living horrors into disturbing alignment.

Seeking recovery from personal tragedy, journalist Michael Wilde travels to Antarctica and discovers two chained bodies frozen beside an ancient chest. As the ice melts, his investigation connects the Crimean War with a dangerous surviving curse.

Scholar David Franco searches for an amulet crafted by Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, following clues across France and Italy. A secretive Florentine ally and pursuing assassins turn an academic investigation into a struggle over the artifact's dangerous power.

Army epidemiologist Frank Slater investigates an Alaskan island where melting permafrost exposes victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic. A colony's ties to Rasputin and reckless treasure hunters complicate his effort to prevent a renewed global outbreak.

In 1944, soldier Lucas Athan recovers an Egyptian sarcophagus later sent to Princeton for study. Working with archaeologist Simone Rashid, he confronts supernatural forces whose release becomes entangled with Albert Einstein's secret research and the war.

Environmental scientist Rafael Salazar finds an antique trunk containing Robert Louis Stevenson's journal, which links Jekyll and Hyde with Jack the Ripper. A missing flask of the original potion threatens to carry an old horror into modern California.

An explorer brings a mysterious golden box from the Carpathians to Victorian London. Drawn into the secrets of a charitable mission, Bram Stoker joins her and a grieving match girl against an ancient evil threatening thousands.

In 1914, H. G. Wells investigates reports of angels helping British soldiers on the Western Front. Troubled souls follow him to London, where he and Rebecca West confront occultists and secret agents plotting against England.