Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton, Warsaw ( Poland ), May 18, 2007

Graham Masterton (born January 16, 1946 in Edinburgh ) is a British author of horror literature .

Life

After training as a newspaper reporter, Masterton became an editor at Penthouse magazine at the age of 24 . It was around this time that he began writing a number of bestselling sex guides, including How to drive your man wild in bed , which sold over three million copies worldwide.

He has also written for magazines such as Cosmopolitan , Men's Health , Woman, and Woman's Own .

Masterton's successful career as a horror writer began in 1976 with The Manitou , a story about an ancient Native American medicine man who is reborn in our day to take revenge on the "White Man". The book became a bestseller and was made into a film with Tony Curtis , Susan Strasberg , Burgess Meredith , Michael Ansara , Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern .

Works

Graham Masterton wrote more than a hundred novels, in addition to horror novels, thrillers, disaster novels, historical novels and children's books.

In addition, four collections of short stories have appeared in the USA:

• Fortnight of Fear
• Flights of Fear
• Faces of Fear
• Feelings of Fear

A biography and bibliography, Manitou Man , was published by the British Fantasy Society in 1999.

In German translation

• The jinn . Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01109-0 .
• The daughter of the Sphinx . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1980, ISBN 3-404-01457-X .
• Tengu . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag , Munich 1994, ISBN 978-34420-8073-1 .
• The outcast . Festa Verlag , Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-935822-78-7 .
• The sacrifice . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-935822-99-2 .
• The insect . Heyne Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-453-43007-5 .
• Hemorrhage . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86552-076-0 .
• The beast's breathing . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86552-135-4 .
• Mad souls . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86552-164-4 .
• Gray devil . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86552-409-6 .
• The sleepless . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-86552-546-8 .
• An eye for an eye . In Festa Special Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN not available because private printing, i.e. H. only available on the publisher's website

Katie Maguire series

• Pale bones . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-86552-558-1 .
• Tortured angels . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-86552-575-8 .
• Avenging angel . Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-86552-725-7 .

Web links

Commons : Graham Masterton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Graham Masterton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Graham Masterton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of the author
• Author portrait at Festa Verlag
• The author's website at phantastik-couch.de