Ray Clark

Since this time, Ray’s writing career has been rather varied with publications covering horror novels, short story collections, stand alone cross genre novels, and the “Gardener and Reilly” series of detective novels set in Leeds, a Yorkshire city. Ray has spent a considerable amount of his life in the music industry working both in Europe and the United Kingdom as a guitarist and vocalist with many bands. “Impurity” started out as nothing more than a brainwave. He was visiting a friend, and was trying to come up with something new and different to write.

The best place to start is the Graham Masterton Short Story Collections series, the earliest of Ray Clark's multi-book series: it opens with Charnel House and Other Stories (1978) and runs to 10 books across 1978–2023, ending with Days of Utter Dread: The Red Butcher and Other Stories (2023). Ray Clark's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Ray Clark has 33 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1978 and 2026. 23 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Gardener and Reilly series with 13 books — and 10 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Ray Clark's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Graham Masterton Short Story Collections (1978–2023, 10 books) and Gardener and Reilly (2016–2026, 13 books).

This guide splits Ray Clark's 33 books into 2 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Gardener and Reilly (13 books, 2016–2026); Graham Masterton Short Story Collections (10 books, 1978–2023).