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Joined: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:45 am Posts: 336 Location: Central Florida
Lee, I was perusing my ever-growing library of books and came across several horror novels by British novelist, Graham Masterton, that I hadn't read yet. I'd read one of his books years ago and liked it. Started reading PREY, one of his Leisure-published titles, and had read online that he'd written this as a Lovecraftian-influenced story. Only about 70 pages into it but he's pretty good. Just thought you'd like to know...
Joined: Sat May 03, 2008 10:49 pm Posts: 450 Location: Winnipeg
Masterton's been a guilty pleasure of mine, on and off, for a few years. He reminds me a bit of Laymon. Entertaining when you're in the mood for it but not making a lot of sense and being generally fairly trashy.
I read "Prey" a few years ago and it was quick, entertaining but infuriating. The way two characters are in a serious boyfriend/girlfriend relationship within literally an hour or so of meeting drove me nuts.
Another very entertaining Masterton book is "The Doorkeepers". It's a parallel universe story where doors lead from one reality to another. It's a fun read as long as you don't expect it to withstand any logical scrutiny or follow its own rules too rigidly.
I tried "Blind Panic" a couple of years back and it was so appalling that I finally wrote off Masterton as somewhat of a hack. Until a few weeks ago. I read his short story "The Burgers of Calais" and it was genuinely well written, with more humour and self awareness than I had ever given him credit for. It was brilliant and I'm now convinced that Masterton writes trash on purpose most of the time. I guess he aims for that market but I'd love to read a novel of his that is written as well as that short story.
Joined: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:45 am Posts: 336 Location: Central Florida
I would think some might think Laymon trashy or Lee, for that matter, given the content. I like trashy, as long as there is a story. The only other Masterton I'd read previously was TRAUMA, and I was pretty good, unusual storyline (a woman who cleans up crime scenes).
Oh, yeah, I read a lot of GM in the past, including The Manitou (who can forget the Tony Curtis film version?). It's a practical allusion to describe him as sort of a British Laymon. His "Suffer Kate" story was great and some of the comic adaptations he did (when working for Verotik during the same period as me) were outstanding. I dimly recall an early 80s novel by him called, I think, Charnel House, which had a gore level that tickled me pink, too
Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:35 am Posts: 483 Location: UK
Masterton is a great British writer. Had the leasure of getting him in for a book signing a couple of years ago at the store where I used to work. Real nice guy, down to earth and friendly. Apparently it was the first signing he'd done in the Uk in 16 years or somehting like that. Not that he doesn't want to do signings, it's just that no fuckers ever ask him. Books stores man, most of them only know what the publishers tell them.
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