Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton is a British author of thrillers and horror novels, as well as erotic advice books. His first supernatural novel, The Manitou, was published in 1975, became a bestseller, and was adapted into a film starring Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg. His novels have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. According to Masterton, he wrote a story about a headless singer at the age of eleven—an anecdote later remembered by one of his school friends.