Authors A to Z - Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh on 16 January 1946.

After finishing his state education at the Whitgift school in Croydon, he worked for the Crawley Observer as a cub reporter and in 1967 applied to work for the Daily Telegraph, but was turned down. He then went to his uncle who worked on the Evening Standard, and was turned down again due to lack of experience. A day later his girlfriend suggested trying a new magazine called Mayfair. He applied and was hired.

As it turned out, he ended up doing virtually everything: writing the headlines, copy editing, typography - training which resulted in being able to write about anything at short notice.

After three years he moved over to the UK edition of Penthouse. The publishers had just started an American edition which led to Masterton visiting New Yorkon a regular basis, getting to know the American publishers. With the support of those publishers he started writing sex instruction books.

In 1975 Masterton turned to horror. His first novel was The Manitou, and he followed that success with a stream of further titles.

In the eighties he diversified into writing historical sagas, thrillers, even movie tie-ins. Nowadays, he regularly contributes creative and instructive articles to magazines, and short stories to international anthologies and is still writing novels.

His latest book, Trauma, has recently been optioned for a film, and other titles include The Doorkeepers and Snowman for his ongoing Rook series.

 

What they've said about Graham and his books (a very, very small selection!):

Prey: "Quite seriously, one of the most disturbing novels I have ever read" - Shivers.

"Horror at it's best" - James Herbert.

 

 

"Graham Masterson is the living inheritor to the realm of Edgar Allen Poe" - San Francisco Chronicle.

"One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our times" Peter James.

More information about Graham Masterton can be found on his official website