Graham Masterton


Graham Masterton 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. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the United States.
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 Masterton 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.
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Career

Masterton 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 was 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 2010, Masterton published Rules of Duel, a short novel from the early 1970s that he wrote in collaboration with William S. Burroughs.
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 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.
Masterton is co-authoring short horror stories with Dawn G Harris and these have appeared in a collection "Days Of Utter Dread". He is also writing short horror stories based on Slavic mythology with a Polish psychologist Karolina Mogielska and the first of these "Mr Nobody" was published in "Phantasmagoria magazine 22."
Masterton won the Zloty Kosciej Award for the best horror novel of 2023 "Szpital Filomeny".

Personal life

Masterton lives in Surrey, England. His wife and agent Wiescka died on 27 April 2011, aged 65.

Horror

  • The Manitou, 1976
  • The Djinn, 1977
  • The Sphinx, 1978
  • Charnel House, 1978
  • The Devils of D-Day, 1978
  • The Hell Candidate, 1981
  • The Heirloom, 1981
  • The Wells of Hell, 1981
  • Tengu, 1983
  • The Pariah, 1983
  • Picture of Evil, 1985
  • Death Trance, 1986
  • Mirror, 1988
  • Ritual, 1988
  • Walkers, 1989
  • Master of Lies, 1991
  • The Burning, 1991
  • Prey, 1992
  • The Sleepless, 1993
  • Flesh & Blood, 1994
  • Spirit, 1995
  • The House That Jack Built, 1995
  • The Chosen Child, 1996
  • House of Bones, 1998
  • The Doorkeepers, 2001
  • Hair Raiser, 2001
  • Trauma, 2001
  • The Hidden World, 2003
  • The Devil in Gray, 2004
  • Unspeakable, 2004
  • Descendant, 2006
  • Edgewise, 2006
  • The 5th Witch, 2008
  • Ghost Music, 2008
  • Fire Spirit, 2010
  • Panic, 2013
  • Community, 2014
  • Scarlet Widow, 2015
  • The House of a Hundred Whispers, 2020
  • The Soul Stealer, 2022
  • The House at Phantom Park, 2022

The Manitou/Harry Erskine series

  1. The Manitou, 1976
  2. The Djinn, 1977
  3. Revenge of the Manitou, 1979
  4. Burial, 1991
  5. "Spirit Jump", 1996
  6. Manitou Blood, 2005
  7. Blind Panic, 2009
  8. Plague of the Manitou, 2015

Night Warriors series

  1. Night Warriors, 1987
  2. Death Dream, 1988
  3. Night Plague, 1991
  4. Night Wars, 2006
  5. The Ninth Nightmare, 2011

Rook series

  1. Rook, 1997
  2. Tooth and Claw, 1997
  3. The Terror, 1998
  4. Snowman, 1999
  5. Swimmer, 2001
  6. Darkroom, 2004
  7. Demon's Door, 2010
  8. Garden of Evil, 2012

Sissy Sawyer series

  1. Touchy and Feely, 2005
  2. The Painted Man, 2008
  3. The Red Hotel, 2012

Nathan Underhill series

  1. Basilisk, 2009
  2. Petrified, 2011

Katie Maguire series

  • 1. White Bones, 2003
  • 2. Broken Angels, 2012
  • 3. Red Light, 2014
  • 4. Taken for Dead, 2014
  • 5. Blood Sisters, 2015
  • 5.5 "Eye for an Eye", 2015
  • 6. Buried, 2016
  • 7. Living Death, 2016
  • 7.5 "The Drowned", 2016
  • 8. Dead Girls Dancing, 2016
  • 9. Dead Men Whistling, 2018
  • 10. Begging to Die, 2019
  • 11. The Last Drop of Blood, 2020
  • 12. Pay Back the Devil, 2024

Patel & Pardoe Series

  • Ghost Virus, 2018
  • The Children God Forgot, 2021
  • The Shadow People, 2022
  • What Hides in the Cellar, 2023
  • House of Flies, 2025

Historical fiction

  • Heartbreaker, 1978
  • Rich, 1979
  • Railroad, 1981
  • Solitaire, 1982
  • Corroboree, 1984
  • Maiden Voyage, 1984
  • Lady of Fortune, 1984
  • Headlines, 1986
  • Silver, 1987
  • Lords of the Air, 1988
  • Empress, 1990

Thrillers

  • Fireflash 5, 1977
  • Plague, 1977
  • The Sweetman Curve, 1979
  • Famine, 1981
  • Ikon, 1983
  • Condor, 1984
  • Sacrifice, 1985
  • Genius, 1998
  • Holy Terror, 1999
  • Innocent Blood, 2004
  • Chaos Theory, 2007
  • Rules of Duel, 2010
  • Drought, 2014

''Confessions'' series

  • Confessions of a Wanton Waitress, 1975
  • Confessions of a Racy Receptionist, 1976

Movie tie-ins

''...of Fear''—short story collections

Fortnight of Fear, 1994Flights of Fear, 1995Faces of Fear, 1996Feelings of Fear, 2000Festival of Fear, 2005Figures of Fear, 2014

Short stories

  • "Absence of Beast"
  • "Anaïs"
  • "Anka"
  • "A Polite Murder"
  • "A Portrait of Kasia"
  • "The Ballyhooly Boy"
  • "Beijing Craps"
  • "Beholder"
  • "Bridal Suite"
  • "The Burgers of Calais"
  • "Camelot"
  • "Changeling"
  • "Cheeseboy"
  • "Cold Turkey"
  • "Cutting The Mustard"
  • "Dog Days"
  • "Eau Noire"
  • "Edgewise"
  • "Egg"
  • "Eric the Pie"
  • "Ever, Ever After"
  • "Evidence of Angels"
  • "Fairy Story"
  • "5A Bedford Row"
  • "Friend in Need"
  • "The Grey Madonna"
  • "Grease Monkey"
  • "Grief"
  • "Half-Sick of Shadows"
  • "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"
  • "Mr Nobody"
  • "National Balance"
  • "Neighbors From Hell"
  • "On Gracious Pond"
  • "Out of Her Depth"
  • "Picnic at Lac Du Sang"
  • "Pig's Dinner"
  • "Roadkill"
  • "The Red Butcher of Wroclaw"
  • "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"
  • "Stranglehold"
  • "Suffer Kate"
  • "The Sympathy Society"
  • "The Taking of Mr. Bill"
  • "Underbed"
  • "Voodoo Child"
  • "Will"
  • "The Woman in the Wall"

Sex instruction books

  • Acts of Love, 1971
  • Your Erotic Fantasies, 1971
  • Girls Who Said Yes, 1973
  • How a Woman Longs to be Loved, 1974
  • How to be the Perfect Lover, 1975
  • Isn't It Time You Did Something Kinky?, 1975
  • Sex is Everything, 1975
  • How to be a Good Bad Girl, 1976
  • Women's Erotic Dreams , 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, 1989
  • How to Make Love Six Nights a Week, 1991
  • Wild in Bed Together, 1992
  • Drive Him Wild, 1993
  • Single, Wild, Sexy...and Safe, 1994
  • How to Drive Your Man Even Wilder in Bed, 1995
  • How to Make His Wildest Dreams Come True, 1996
  • Secrets of the Sexually Irresistible Woman, 1998
  • The Seven Secrets of Really Great Sex, 1999
  • The Secrets of Sexual Play, 1999
  • Wild Sex for New Lovers, 2001
  • Up All Night, 2004