Graham Masterton is a British

United Kingdom

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 horror author. Originally editor of Mayfair

Mayfair (magazine)

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 and the British edition of Penthouse

Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...

, Graham Masterton's first novel The Manitou was released in 1976. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou

The Manitou

The Manitou is an American horror movie from 1978 with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg, based on a 1975 book by Graham Masterton. The movie is based on an old legend about the Native American spirit-concept Manitou.-Plot:...

. Further works garnered critical acclaim, including a Special Edgar award

Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...

 by the Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America

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 for Charnel House and a Silver Medal by the West Coast Review of Books for Mirror. He is also the only non-French

France

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 winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger for his novel Family Portrait, an imaginative reworking of the Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...

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

Masterton's novels often contain visceral sex

Sex

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 and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

. 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. A number of his novels have also been adapted into films.

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

Horror

• The Djinn
• The Sphinx
• Charnel House
• The Devils of D-Day
• The Hell Candidate
• The Heirloom
• The Wells of Hell
• Tengu
• The Pariah
• Family Portrait (based on Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
  's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray
  The Picture of Dorian Gray
  The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...
  
  . Also published as Picture of Evil)
• Death Trance
• Mirror
• Ritual
• Walkers
• Salamander
• Apparition
• Black Angel (also published as Master of Lies)
• The Hymn (also published as The Burning)
• Prey (based on H. P. Lovecraft
  H. P. Lovecraft
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
  
  's short story "The Dreams in the Witch House
  The Dreams in the Witch House
  "The Dreams in the Witch House" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales.-Inspiration:...
  
  ")
• The Sleepless
• Flesh & Blood
• Spirit
• The House That Jack Built
• The Chosen Child
• House of Bones
• The Doorkeepers
• Hair Raiser
• Trauma
• The Hidden World
• The Devil In Gray
• Unspeakable
• Descendant (only, so far, published volume of a proposed Vampire Hunter series)
• Edgewise
• The 5th Witch
• Death Mask
• Ghost Music
• Basilisk (only, so far, published volume of a proposed Basilisk series)
• Fire Spirit
• Petrified

Manitou series

1. The Manitou
   The Manitou
   The Manitou is an American horror movie from 1978 with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg, based on a 1975 book by Graham Masterton. The movie is based on an old legend about the Native American spirit-concept Manitou.-Plot:...
   
   
2. Revenge of the Manitou
3. Burial
4. Spirit Jump (short story)
5. Manitou Blood
6. Blind Panic

Night Warriors series

1. Night Warriors
2. Death Dream
3. Night Plague
4. Night Wars
5. The Ninth Nightmare

Rook series

1. Rook
2. Tooth and Claw
3. The Terror
4. Snowman
5. Swimmer
6. Darkroom
7. Demon's Door
8. Ultimate Evil

Historical fiction

• Heartbreaker
• Rich
• Railroad
• Solitaire
• Corroboree
• Maiden Voyage
• Lady of Fortune
• Headlines
• Silver
• Lords of the Air
• Empress

Thrillers

• Fireflash 5 (also published as A Mile Before Morning)
• Plague
• The Sweetman Curve
• Famine
  Famine (1981 novel)
  Famine is a 1981 horror novel written by Scottish writer Graham Masterton. The story is about a nationwide famine that sweeps America, rendering all sources of food contaminated in one way or another....
  
  
• Ikon
• Condor
• Sacrifice
• Genius
• Holy Terror
• Katie Maguire
• Innocent Blood
• Chaos Theory
• Rules of Duel

Sissy Sawyer series

1. Touchy and Feely (based on the Beltway snipers
   Beltway sniper attacks
   The Washington sniper attacks took place during three weeks in October 2002 in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others critically injured in various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia...
   
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2. The Painted Man (also published as Death Mask)

Short stories

• Absence of Beas
• Anaïs
• A Polite Murder
• The Ballyhooly Boy
• Beijing Craps
• Bridal Suite
• The Burgers of Calais
• Camelot
• Changeling
• Cold Turkey
• Eau Noire
• 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
• Sex Object
• The Sixth Man
• Son of Beast
• Spirit Jump
• Spirits of the Age
• St. Bronach's Branch
• Suffer Kate
• The Sympathy Society
• The Taking of Mr. Bill
• Underbed
• Voodoo Child
• Will (Cthulhu Mythos
  Cthulhu Mythos
  The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...
  
   pastiche, features Yog-Sothoth
  Yog-Sothoth
  Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity of the fictional Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Yog-Sothoth's name was first mentioned in his novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward...
  
  )
• The Woman in the Wall

Sex instruction books

• Acts of Love
• Your Erotic Fantasies
• Girls Who Said Yes
• How a Woman Longs to be Loved
• How to be the Perfect Lover
• Isn't It Time You Did Something Kinky?
• Sex is Everything
• How to be a Good Bad Girl
• Women's Erotic Dreams
• 1,001 Erotic Dreams Interpreted
• How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed
• How to Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed
• The High Intensity Sex Plan
• More Ways to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed
• Sex Secrets of the Other Woman
• How to Drive Your Lover Wild in Bed
• How to Make Love Six Nights a Week
• Wild in Bed Together
• Drive Him Wild
• Single, Wild, Sexy ... and Safe
• How to Drive Your Man Even Wilder in Bed
• How to Make His Wildest Dreams Come True
• Secrets of the Sexually Irresistible Woman
• The Seven Secrets of Really Great Sex
• The Secrets of Sexual Play
• Wild Sex for New Lovers
• Up All Night

External links

• Graham Masterton official website
• Official Polish website by Piotr Pocztarek and Robert Cichowlas
• Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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  entry for Graham Masterton