Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946, in Edinburgh) is a British author known primarily for horror fiction. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, his debut novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou. His 1978 novel Charnel House and 1983 novel Tengu garnered positive critical reception, the former receiving a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America and the latter being awarded with a silver medal by the West Coast Review of Books. Masterson is also the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger for his novel Family Portrait, a reworking of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the United States.
British horror author
Masterton's novels often contain visceral sex and horror. In addition to his novels, Masterton has written a number of sex instruction books, including How To Drive Your Man Wild in Bed and Wild Sex for New Lovers.
In 2002, Masterton wrote the crime novel A Terrible Beauty, featuring the character Katie Maguire, an Irish detective. The novel was republished in 2013 under the title White Bones, and spawned a number of other novels by Masterson featuring the Maguire character. In 2010, Masterton published Rules of Duel, a short novel that he co-wrote with William S. Burroughs in the early 1970s.
Career
Masterson is a former editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse. His first novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976, and adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou. Further works garnered critical acclaim, including a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for Charnel House and a silver medal by the West Coast Review of Books for Tengu. He is also the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger for his novel Family Portrait, a reworking of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the U.S.
In 2002, while living with his wife in Cork, Ireland, Masterton added crime fiction to his repertoire with A Terrible Beauty featuring Irish Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire. This was republished in 2013 as White Bones and sold 100,000 ebook copies in a month. It is to be followed by further Katie Maguire adventures, Broken Angels (2013), Red Light (2014), "Taken For Dead" (2014), "Blood Sisters" (2015), "Buried" (2015), Living Death" (2016), "Dead Girls Dancing" (2016) and "Dead Men Whistling" (2018). In 2010, Masterton published Rules of Duel, a short novel from the early 1970s that he wrote in collaboration with William S. Burroughs (Burroughs has co-author credit).
In 2017, after a visit to Wolow, the maximum-security prison near Wrocław in southern Poland, Masterton set up the Graham Masterton Written in Prison Award (Nagroda Grahama Mastertona W Wiezieniu Pisane) for the inmates of all of Poland's penal institutions to enter a short story contest. The contest is now an annual event and is supported by the Polish Prison Service, the Wrocław Agglomeration for Culture and Sport, both Rebis and Albatros publishing houses and the Wrocław Library.
The Prix Graham Masterton is organized annually in Belgium by the publisher Marc Bailly for the best French horror novel and short story of the year. The first prize is a sculpture of a demon.
In 2019, Masterton was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers' Association. In 2021, he was honoured by the city of Wrocław in Poland by having a bronze dwarf representing himself with a copy of his horror novel The Manitou placed on the pavement outside the Art Hotel on Kielbasnicza Street -- one of nearly 600 dwarves which are a major tourist attraction.
Personal life
Masterton lives in Surrey, England. His wife and agent Wiescka died on 27 April 2011, aged 65.
Bibliography
Horror
The Djinn (featuring Harry Erskine of The Manitou series), 1977
The Sphinx, 1978
Charnel House, 1978
The Devils of D-Day, 1978
The Hell Candidate, 1981
The Heirloom, 1981
The Wells of Hell (loosely based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Colour Out of Space"), 1981
Tengu, 1983
The Pariah, 1983
Picture of Evil (based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray; also published in the U.K. as Family Portrait), 1985
Death Trance, 1986
Mirror (referencing Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass), 1988
Feast (also published in the U.K. as Ritual), 1988
Walkers, 1989
Master of Lies (also published in the U.K. as Black Angel; mentions Harry Erskine as a fictional character), 1991
The Burning (also published in the U.K. as The Hymn), 1991
Prey (based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dreams in the Witch House"), 1992[1]
"Edgewise" (also published as "Night of the Wendigo"; short story not directly related to the novel of the same name, although it features the character of John Shooks, serialized in issues #3, 4 and 5 of The Horror Express magazine, edited by Marc Shemmans)
"Egg"
"Eric the Pie"
"Ever, Ever After"
"Evidence of Angles"
"Fairy Story"
"5A Bedford Row"
"Friend in Need"
"The Grey Madonna"
"Grease Monkey"
"Grief"
"The Heart of Helen Day"
"Heart of Stone"
"Heroine"
"The Hungry Moon"
"Hurry Monster"
"I, The Martian"
"J.R.E. Ponsford"
"Jack Be Quick"
"The Jajouka Penis-Beetle"
"Laird of Dunain"
"Lolicia"
"Making Belinda"
"Men of Maes"
"Mother of Invention"
"Neighbors From Hell"
"Out of Her Depth"
"Picnic at Lac Du Sang"
"Pig's Dinner"
"Roadkill"
"Rococo"
"The Root of All Evil"
"Rug"
"Saint Joan"
"Saving Grace"
"The Scrawler"
"The Secret Shih-Tan"
"Sepsis"
"Sex Object"
"The Sixth Man"
"Son of Beast"
"Spirit Jump"
"Spirits of the Age"
"St. Bronach's Shrift"
"Suffer Kate"
"The Sympathy Society"
"The Taking of Mr. Bill"
"Underbed"
"Voodoo Child"
"Will" (Cthulhu Mythos pastiche; features Yog-Sothoth)
"The Woman in the Wall"
Sex instruction books
Acts of Love (published as by Dr. Jan Berghoff), 1971
Your Erotic Fantasies (published as by Edward Thorne), 1971
Girls Who Said Yes (published as by Edward Thorne), 1973
How a Woman Longs to be Loved (published as by Angel Smith), 1974
How to be the Perfect Lover, 1975
Isn't It Time You Did Something Kinky? (published as by Angel Smith), 1975
Sex is Everything (published as by Edward Thorne), 1975
How to be a Good Bad Girl (published as by Angel Smith), 1976
Women's Erotic Dreams (and What They Mean), 1976
1,001 Erotic Dreams Interpreted, 1976
How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed, 1976
How to Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed, 1987
The High Intensity Sex Plan, 1977
More Ways to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed, 1985
Sex Secrets of the Other Woman, 1989
How to Drive Your Lover Wild in Bed (a combination of How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed and How to Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed), 1989
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