Graham Masterton


Graham Masterton is a British horror author. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, Graham Masterton's first novel The Manitou was released in 1976. This novel was 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, an imaginative 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.
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.
Masterton lives in Surrey, England. His wife and agent Wiescka died on 27 April 2011, aged 65.
In 2002, while living with his wife in Cork, Ireland, he 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, Red Light , "Taken For Dead", "Blood Sisters", "Buried", Living Death", "Dead Girls Dancing" and "Dead Men Whistling".
In 2017, after a visit to Wolow, the maximum security prison near Wroclaw in southern Poland, Masterton set up the Graham Masterton Written In Prison Award 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 Wroclaw Agglomeration for Culture and Sport, both Rebis and Albatros publishing houses and the Wroclaw 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, Graham Masterton was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers' Association.

Horror

  1. The Manitou, 1976
  2. Revenge of the Manitou, 1979
  3. Burial, 1991
  4. "Spirit Jump", 1996
  5. Manitou Blood, 2005
  6. Blind Panic, 2009
  7. Plague of the Manitou, 2015

    Night Warriors series

  8. Night Warriors, 1986
  9. Death Dream, 1988
  10. Night Plague, 1991
  11. Night Wars, 2006
  12. The Ninth Nightmare, 2011

    Rook series

  13. Rook, 1997
  14. Tooth and Claw, 1997
  15. The Terror, 1998
  16. Snowman, 1999
  17. Swimmer, 2001
  18. Darkroom, 2004
  19. Demon's Door, 2010
  20. Garden of Evil, 2012

    Sissy Sawyer series

  21. Touchy and Feely, 2005
  22. The Painted Man, 2008
  23. The Red Hotel, 2012

    Nathan Underhill series

  24. Basilisk, 2009
  25. Petrified, 2011

    Katie Maguire series