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Graham Masterton

Born

in Edinburgh , The United Kingdom

January 16, 1946

Website

http://www.grahammasterton.co.uk/

Genre

Horror, Crime, Health, Mind & Body, Children's Books

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Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.

At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.

At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines.

Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern.

Altogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear.

He has also written horror novels for children (House of Bones, Hair-Raiser) and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts.

Since then Graham has published more than 35 horror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America; Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Review of Books; and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wilde's tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France.

He and his wife Wiescka live in a Gothic Victorian mansion high above the River Lee in Cork, Ireland.
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Average rating: 3.75 · 95,129 ratings · 9,498 reviews · 366 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Terrible Beauty (Katie Maguire, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 6,015 ratings — published 2003 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manitou (Manitou #1) 3.70 avg rating — 4,498 ratings — published 1975 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of a Hundred Whispers 3.49 avg rating — 4,325 ratings — published 2020 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Angels (Katie Maguire, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 3,466 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Light (Katie Maguire, #3) 3.95 avg rating — 2,336 ratings — published 2014 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taken for Dead (Katie Maguire, #4) 4.01 avg rating — 2,062 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House That Jack Built 3.87 avg rating — 2,092 ratings — published 1995 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirror 3.88 avg rating — 2,043 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Sisters (Katie Maguire, #5) 4.04 avg rating — 1,850 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House at Phantom Park 3.38 avg rating — 2,209 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Katie Maguire (11 books)
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Manitou (6 books)
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Patel & Pardoe (4 books)
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3.70 avg rating — 4,460 ratings

Night Warriors (5 books)
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Jim Rook (9 books)
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3.69 avg rating — 1,637 ratings

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“Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.”
― Graham Masterton, The Devil in Gray

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“Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their
children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must
understand that their children are not their property; that their children are
entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.”
― Graham Masterton, Ritual

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“Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.”
― Graham Masterton

tags: history

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Polls

February/March 2014 Group Read

And Then There Were None/Agatha Christie

40 votes, 10.8%

The Shining / Stephen King

36 votes, 9.7%

Defending Jacob/ William Landay

33 votes, 8.9%

A Ghostly Undertaking/Tonya Kappes

30 votes, 8.1%

Ripper: A Novel / Isabel Allende

30 votes, 8.1%

Where the Bodies Are Buried / Christopher Brookmyre

21 votes, 5.7%

A Test Of Wills / Charles Todd

20 votes, 5.4%

Rules Of Prey / John Sandford

19 votes, 5.1%

The Green Mile / Stephen King

18 votes, 4.9%

1st to Die / James Patterson

18 votes, 4.9%

Aftershock: A Thriller/Andrew Vachss

16 votes, 4.3%

Pig Island/ Mo Hayder

14 votes, 3.8%

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter/Sharyn McCrumb

13 votes, 3.5%

First Night of Summer/ Landon Parham

13 votes, 3.5%

The Blind Man of Seville/ Robert Wilson

12 votes, 3.2%

The Chalk Circle Man / Fred Vargas

8 votes, 2.2%

Havana Queen/James Bruno

6 votes, 1.6%

Broken Dolls /James Carol

6 votes, 1.6%

The Eleventh Victim/ Nancy Grace

5 votes, 1.4%

The Case of the Love Commandos / Tarquin Hall

5 votes, 1.4%

A Terrible Beauty/Graham Masterton

3 votes, 0.8%

On Behalf of the Family/ Mar Preston

2 votes, 0.5%

next of sin/Lisa Gordon

1 vote, 0.3%

Dr. 2/ Peter Tieryas

1 vote, 0.3%

370 total votes

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