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Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.

At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over three million copies worldwide. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other magazines.

He lives in Surrey, England (sadly his wife, Wiescka died in April 2011). He has finished writing a black thriller featuring Ireland's only female detective superintendent, Katie Maguire, set in the Cork underworld; and a dark fantasy, Jessica's Angel, about a girl's search for five supposedly-dead children.

He has written several new short stories and is currently working on a new horror novel, as yet untitled. Graham has written more than 35 horror novels.

Interviewed 10 December 2016

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

Fortuitous, persistent, sexy, privileged, empathetic, struggling, tragic, recovering, transmogrified, rewarding.

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

Racecourse rails, grapevine arbour, plum tree, apple trees, hollyhocks, fat man walking five dogs, Prix Graham Masterton statuette of naked demon, photo of my late wife Wiescka in her fur coat, my black Mustang.

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

Daging Madura…thinly-sliced beef with garlic, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, black pepper, brown sugar, chilies and soy sauce. Microwaved rice to go with it.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

Nóirín O’Sullivan (Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, the Irish police), Bob Dylan, Kinga Rusin (interviewer for Dzien Dobry, Polish TV show), Jan Cremer (Dutch writer and artist), Pierre Etaix (French comedian), Fred Caruso (producer of The Godfather), Dawn Harris (writer of supernatural romance).

Six things you can't live without ...

Chanel Bleu, Armani jeans, sauvignon blanc, The Daily Telegraph crossword, Polish sausage and women who are supposed to be too young for me.

Five favourite words ...

Pyrophoric (ignites spontaneously), scaldy (short Northern Irish haircut), haunted (Cork speak for very lucky, as in ‘You were haunted to win that hurling match’), transmogrify, breezer (Cork speak for breaking wind, as in ‘Julius Caesar did a breezer’).

Four places you'd run away to ...

Napa Valley, California; Wroclaw, Poland; Parknasilla, Kerry; Dinant, Belgium.

Three books you've bought recently ...

My Home By The Lee by Richard T Cooke; William S Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles (because I’m mentioned in it); Hot & Spicy by Marlena Spieler (cookery book, not erotica).

Two things that make you rant ...

Men who wear hats indoors; paying a TV licence for BBC TV which I never watch.

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

You were absolutely right to be more interested in girls than Shakespeare.