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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. 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. 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 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. 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" ("The House at Phantom Park"). 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 The Sleepless, 1993 Flesh & Blood, 1994 Spirit (referencing Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen), 1995 The House That Jack Built, 1995 The Chosen Child, 1996 House of Bones, 1998 The Doorkeepers, 2001 Hair Raiser, 2001 Trauma (also published in the U.K. as Bonnie Winter), 2001 The Hidden World, 2003 The Devil in Gray, 2004 Unspeakable, 2004 Descendant (the first book of a proposed series called Vampire Hunter), 2006 Edgewise, 2006 The 5th Witch, 2008 Ghost Music, 2008 Fire Spirit, 2010 Panic (also published in the U.K. as Forest Ghost), 2013 Community, 2014 Scarlet Widow, 2015 The House of a Hundred Whispers, 2020 The Soul Stealer, 2022 The House at Phantom Park, 2022The Manitou/Harry Erskine series The Manitou, 1976 The Djinn, 1977 Revenge of the Manitou, 1979 Burial, 1991 "Spirit Jump" (short story in Faces of Fear), 1996 Manitou Blood, 2005 Blind Panic, 2009 Plague of the Manitou, 2015Night Warriors series Night Warriors, 1987 Death Dream, 1988 Night Plague, 1991 Night Wars, 2006 The Ninth Nightmare, 2011Rook series Rook, 1997 Tooth and Claw, 1997 The Terror, 1998 Snowman, 1999 Swimmer, 2001 Darkroom, 2004 Demon's Door, 2010 Garden of Evil, 2012Sissy Sawyer series Touchy and Feely (also published as Ill Fortune, loosely based on the Beltway snipers), 2005 The Painted Man (also published as Death Mask), 2008 The Red Hotel, 2012Nathan Underhill series Basilisk, 2009 Petrified, 2011Katie Maguire series 1. White Bones (also published as Katie Maguire and A Terrible Beauty), 2003 2. Broken Angels (also published as Voice of an Angel), 2012 3. Red Light, 2014 4. Taken for Dead, 2014 5. Blood Sisters, 2015 5.5 "Eye for an Eye" (short story), 2015 6. Buried, 2016 7. Living Death, 2016 7.5 "The Drowned" (short story), 2016 8. Dead Girls Dancing, 2016 9. Dead Men Whistling, 2018 10. Begging to Die, 2019 11. The Last Drop of Blood, 2020Patel.... Discover the Graham Masterton popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Graham Masterton books.