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Graham Masterton is a British author that writes horror and who has accrued more than a hundred books under his name over the decades. Graham was born in 1946 in Edinburgh. His family was made famous by Thomas Thorne Baker, his grandfather and a scientist who is responsible for the creation of DayGlo, a luminous printing ink.
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Order of Harry Erskine Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Manitou | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Djinn | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Revenge of the Manitou | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Burial | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Manitou Blood | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Blind Panic | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Plague of the Manitou | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Night Warriors Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Night Warriors | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Death Dream | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Night Plague | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Night Wars | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Ninth Nightmare | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Jim Rook Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Rook | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Tooth And Claw | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Terror | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Snowman | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Swimmer | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Darkroom | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Demon's Door | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Garden of Evil | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Katie Maguire Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | A Terrible Beauty / White Bones | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Broken Angels | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Red Light | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Taken for Dead | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Blood Sisters | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Eye for an Eye (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Buried | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Living Death | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Drowned (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Dead Girls Dancing | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Dead Men Whistling | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Begging to Die | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Last Drop of Blood | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Pay Back The Devil | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Sissy Sawyer Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Touchy And Feely | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Painted Man | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Red Hotel | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Beatrice Scarlet Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Scarlet Widow | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Coven | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ghost Virus | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Children God Forgot | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Shadow People | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
4 | What Hides in the Cellar | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Graham Masterton Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Inserts (Short Story) | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Fireflash 5 | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Plague | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Charnel House | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Sphinx | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Heartbreaker | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Sweetman Curve | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Rich | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Devils Of D-Day | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Hell Candidate | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Death Trance | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Phobia | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Wells Of Hell | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Famine | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Railroad | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
16 | A Man Of Destiny | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Heirloom | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Solitaire | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Pariah | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Ikon | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Tengu | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Lady of Fortune | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Maiden Voyage | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Corroboree | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Sacrifice | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Picture of Evil | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Family Portrait | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Headlines | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Mirror | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Feast | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Ritual | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Lords of the Air | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Hymn | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Empress | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Black Angel | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Prey | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Master of Lies | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
38 | The Sleepless | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The House That Jack Built | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
40 | The Chosen Child | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Condor | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Flesh And Blood | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
43 | House of Bones | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Kingdom of the Blind | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Plague Of Angels | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Trauma | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Hair Raiser | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Bonnie Winter | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Hidden World | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Genius | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
51 | Unspeakable | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
52 | The Devil in Gray | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Innocent Blood | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
54 | Holy Terror | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Edgewise | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
56 | Descendant | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
57 | Chaos Theory | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
58 | The 5th Witch | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Ghost Music | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
60 | Basilisk | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Death Mask | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Fire Spirit | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
63 | Spirit | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
64 | Rules of Duel | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Petrified | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
66 | The Doorkeepers | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Walkers | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Community | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Forest Ghost | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
70 | Drought | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Silver | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
72 | The House of a Hundred Whispers | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
73 | The Soul Stealer | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
74 | The House at Phantom Park | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Graham Masterton Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Hurry Monster (Short Story) | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Underbed | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Secret Shih Tan | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Lolicia | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Sepsis (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Press (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Graham Masterton Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Charnel House and Other Stories | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Thirteen More Tales of Horror | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Fortnight of Fear | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Flights of Fear | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Faces of Fear | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Manitou Man: The World of Graham Masterton | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Feelings of Fear | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Festival of Fear | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Grease Monkey and Other Tales of Erotic Horror | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Graham Masterton Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Acts of Love (Short Story) | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Your Erotic Fantasies | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Girls Who Said Yes | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
4 | How a Woman Loves to Be Loved (Short Story) | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
5 | How to Be a Perfect Lover | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Sex Is Everything | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Confessions Of A Wanton Waitress, Or, Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
8 | How a Woman Longs to Be Loved | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Confessions of a Racy Receptionist | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Women's Erotic Dreams | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
11 | How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
12 | How to Be a Good Bad Girl | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
13 | 1,001 Erotic Dreams Interpreted | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
14 | How to Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
15 | More Ways to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
16 | How to Drive Your Lover Wild in Bed | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Sex Secrets of the Other Woman | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Wild in Bed Together | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Drive Him Wild | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Single, Wild, Sexy and Safe | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
21 | How to Drive Your Man Even Wilder in Bed | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
22 | How to Make His Wildest Dreams Come True | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Secrets of the Sexually Irresistible Woman | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Seven Secrets of Really Great Sex | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Secrets of Sexual Play | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Wild Sex for New Lovers | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Up All Night | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
28 | How To Make Love Six Nights A Week | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Graham Masterton Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Scare Care | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Dark Voices 3 | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Giant Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Hottest Blood | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Mammoth Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Deadly After Dark | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Thirteen More Tales of Horror | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Seventh Annual Collection | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Thirteen Again | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Dark Terrors | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Dark Terrors 2 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Fear the Fever | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Kiss and Kill | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Mammoth Book of Dracula | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Hot Blood X | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Dark Terrors 5 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Shivers | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Dark Terrors 6 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Fatal Attractions | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Shivers II | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
29 | The Mammoth Book of New Terror | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Strange Bedfellows | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Dark Passions | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Best of Cemetery Dance II | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Visitants | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Full Fathom Forty | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Stranger by Night | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
37 | What Fears Become | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Necro Files | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Horror Express Volume One | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad! | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
41 | The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Read the End First | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
43 | A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Dark Light | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Shivers VII | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Horror 101: The Way Forward | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Of Devils & Deviants: An Anthology of Erotic Horror | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Tales from The Lake Vol.1 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Dark Discoveries - Issue #28 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Figures of Fear | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
51 | Horror 201: The Silver Scream Vol. 1 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
52 | In the Shadow of Frankenstein | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
53 | The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Two | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
54 | Dark Places, Evil Faces | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Lakes & Other Bodies | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
56 | In the Footsteps of Dracula | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
57 | A Plague of Shadows | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
58 | Midnight in the Pentagram | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Best New Horror #30 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
60 | Grimdark Magazine Issue #27 | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
61 | The Horror Collection: Sapphire Edition | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Vampires | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
63 | The Horror Collection: Turquoise Edition | 2024 | Description / Buy | |
64 | Werewolves | 2024 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Fear of Clowns | 2024 | Description / Buy | |
66 | The Junk Merchants 2 | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Graham studied journalism in school and his hard work paid off relatively quickly when he was assigned the role of Executive Editor of Penthouse, this while he was in his mid-20s. Graham had set his sights on producing fiction at an early age. Journalism was a bit of a detour and he used it to further his goals.
However, rather than pursuing fiction the first chance he got, the author first made a name by writing instructional manuals on the subject of sex. It was in 1971 that the author’s first sex guide came out under Graham’s pseudonym. And it wasn’t the last. After writing a few dozen such guides, it wasn’t long before people began to associate Graham Masterton with sex and health, a reputation that earned him gigs with magazines like Cosmopolitan and Men’s Health.
As far as the author’s reputation as a master of horror is concerned, Graham began shaping it when he wrote The Manitou in 1976, his first fictional work. The author wrote a number of sequels for his first book before branching out to experiment with other forms of horror.
Graham’s books have always taken on an adult nature, featuring considerable violence and visceral sex. Though Graham always endeavored to diversify by also writing horror stories for children, the most renowned being The House of Bones. Many of the author’s fans and critics were surprised that he had the capacity to water the sex and the gore in his books down to an extent where his stories could actually appeal to younger readers.
And his efforts went a long way in cementing his capabilities as a versatile writer that could produce horror within any given genre or for any given age group. Graham Masterton had a tendency to start writing series under pseudonyms, only revealing his real name once the books in question gained traction and attracted an appropriate level of interest.
During his lengthy career, the author has collaborated with peers like William S. Burroughs in order to experiment with unique approaches to storytelling.
Graham had a wife who passed away in 2011.
Graham Masterton Awards
Graham’s renown has more to do with the impressive number of fans he has garnered over the years than the literary awards he has taken home. Though, the author hasn’t lacked in the area of literary recognition, having been nominated for the British Fantasy Society Prize for Best Novel, the Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Story and the World Fantasy Society Prize for Best Collection.
Graham Masterton Books into Movies
The Manitou was Graham’s first ever horror novel. It became a live action film in 1978, directed by William Girdler, starring Susan Strasberg, Tony Curtis, and Michael Ansara. The movie follows a girl with an ancient demon growing out of a lump on her back.
Best Graham Masterton Books
Graham Masterton has used the last couple of decades to become a legend in the arena of horror, with some of the best books from the author including:
The Manitou: When Karen Tandy notices a lump under her skin, she doesn’t think much of it. She only grows concerned when she takes it to doctors and specialists and they do not know what to make of it. An attempt to cut the lump out fails when it moves.
Karen learns that her lump is no ordinary biological anomaly but, rather, an ancient spirit that has returned to wreak vengeance upon the white man for the evils they visited upon the Indians centuries ago. Karen’s body and soul are chained to this evil entity and there is nothing she can do to gain her freedom.
Broken Angels: Detective Inspector Katie Maguire must unveil the secrets being St. Joseph’s Orphanage. Her hunt begins when a priest is found dead in the river, his hands bound and his neck clearly having been garroted. There’s also the castration.
When another priest suffers the same fate, Kate’s attempts to find the truth are hampered by the Catholic diocese which holds a lot of power in County Cork.
Family Portrait: This book is one of Masterton’s best as it won the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger award. Not only that, he is the only non-French person to ever win this award. A great honor, to be sure. This novel is a loose re-telling of the classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
The novel is set in contemporary Boston and Moscow after the end of World War II. There is a body found in Europe of a beautiful young girl and all her beauty has been taken away as all of her skin has been expertly flayed from her body. Even worse, the investigation concludes that not only was she skinned, but she was skinned while she was still alive.
Another body is found soon after, a blood-raw corpse in New England that puzzles the police. Then yet another body is found, a victim of extreme composition and the body is found covered in maggots. These deaths take place far apart, but they are connected and police manage to connect them to a single, crumbling painting. There are those that think the investigators have gone mad thinking a painting could possibly be responsible for such horrid crimes, but the painting holds a terrifying secret that could explain everything.
This is classic Graham Masterton as he never hits you over the head with plot and takes his sweet time in delivering the scares. Never slow, but never fast either. A great novel about murder with just the right dose of supernatural, it’s easy to see why this book is so beloved.
When Does The Next Graham Masterton book come out?
Graham Masterton doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Pay Back The Devil and was released on October, 10th 2024. It is the newest book in the Katie Maguire Series.
“The Manitou” was the first Graham Masterson novel I read and reading its name still makes my skin crawl. Masterson’s writing is incredibly powerful and will make your spine tingle with horror. He blends the supernatural elements seamlessly. You’ll be scared out of your wits but won’t be able to put the book down. I haven’t read all his books but I’m well on my way!