

This was republished in 2013 as White Bones and sold 100,000 ebook copies in a month. 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. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the U.S.

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. 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. His first novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976, and adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou.

Masterton is a former editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse. Burroughs in the early 1970s.Ī bronze statue depicting Masterton as a dwarf with a copy of his novel The Manitou, in Wrocław, Poland In 2010, Masterton published Rules of Duel, a short novel that he co-wrote with William S. The novel was republished in 2013 under the title White Bones, and spawned a number of other novels by Masterson featuring the Maguire character. In 2002, Masterton wrote the crime novel A Terrible Beauty, featuring the character Katie Maguire, an Irish detective. 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's novels often contain visceral sex and horror. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the United States. 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. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, his debut novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976. Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946, in Edinburgh) is a British author known primarily for horror fiction. Graham Masterton at Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France)
