Edward Lee (born May 25, 1957) is an American horror novelist who has written 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market

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nominee for his story “Mr. Torso”, and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies, including the award-winning “999”. Several of his novels have sold translation rights to

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. He also publishes quite actively in the small-press/limited-edition hardcover market; many of his books in this category have become collector's items.

Life and career

Lee is particularly known for over-the-top occult concepts and an accelerated treatment of erotic and/or morbid sexual imagery and visceral violence. He was born on May 25, 1957, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in

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.The Un-Speakable: Exploring the Work of Splatterspunk Author Edward Lee by Tim Kredier.

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27 September 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2011. In the late-70s he served in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, in Erlangen, West Germany, then, for a short time, was a municipal police officer in

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. Lee also attended the University of Maryland as an English major but quit in his last semester to pursue his dream of being a horror novelist. For over 15 years, he worked as the night manager for a security company in Annapolis, Maryland, while writing in his spare time. In 1997, however, he became a full-time writer, first spending several years in Seattle and then moving to Largo, Florida, where he currently resides. Lee cites as his strongest influence horror legend

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; in 2007, Lee embarked on what he calls his “Lovecraft kick” and wrote a spate of novels and novellas which tribute Lovecraft and his famous

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. Among these projects are ''Trolley No. 1852'', ''Pages Torn From A Travel Journal'', ''Haunter Of The Threshold'', ''The Innswich Horror'', ''Lucifer's Lottery'', and ''The Dunwich Romance''.

Bibliography

Novels and Novellas

* ''Night Bait'' (1982) (written under the pseudonym Philip Straker) * ''Night Lust'' (1982) (written under the pseudonym Philip Straker) * ''Ghouls'' (1988) * ''Coven'' (1991) * ''Incubi'' (1991) * ''Succubi'' (1992) * ''The Chosen'' (1993) * ''Creekers'' (1994) * ''Mr. Torso'' (1994) * ''Sacrifice'' (1995) (written under the pseudonym Richard Kinion) * ''Header'' (1995) * ''Goon'' (1996) with John Pelan * '' The Bighead'' (1997) * ''Shifters'' (1998) with John Pelan * ''Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman'' (1998) with Elizabeth Steffen * '' Splatterspunk: The Micah Hays Stories'' (1998) with John Pelan * ''Masks'' (1999) * ''Operator B'' (

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

) * ''Dahmer’s Not Dead'' with Elizabeth Steffen (

) * ''The Stickmen'' (

) * ''The Deaths of the Cold War Kings: The Assassinations of Diem & JFK'' with Bradley O'Leary (

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

) * ''City Infernal'' (

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

Cemetery Dance Publications Cemetery Dance is an American company known for their specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense and their horror magazine of the same name. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. Ce ...

. * ''Sex, Drugs and Power Tools'' (2002) * ''Family Tradition'' (2002) with John Pelan * ''Monstrosity'' (

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

. * ''Ever Nat'' (

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

) * ''The Baby'' (

) * ''Teratologist'' (2003) with Wrath James White * ''Incubi'' (

): Necro Publications. * ''Infernal Angel'' (

. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 750-copy limited hardcover. ** ( January 2004): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback. * ''Messenger'' ( August 2004): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback. * ''The Backwoods'' ( October 2005): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback. ** ( December 2005):

. Published as a 52-copy leather-bound hardcover and 750-copy limited hardcover. * ''Monster Lake'' (2005). Necro Publications. First book for young readers. * ''Flesh Gothic'' ( February 2005): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback. * ''Slither'' (

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

: Necro Publications.) * ''Gast'' (2007) ** (

October 2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joh ...

): Leisure Books. Revised, retitled ''Black Train'', and published as a Mass Market Paperback. * ''House Infernal'' ( October 2007): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback. ** ( February 2008):

. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 1000-copy limited hardcover. * ''Minotauress'' ( December 2008): Necro Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 300-copy limited hardcover. * ''Brides of the Impaler'' ( September 2008): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback. ** ( May 2011):

. Published as Hardcover Limited Edition of 1000 signed copies bound in full cloth and Smyth sewn and Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker. * ''Golemesque'' ( March 2009): Necro Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 300-copy limited hardcover. ** ( April 2009): Leisure Books. Published as ''Golem'' as a Mass Market Paperback. * ''Trolley No. 1852'' ( May 2009): Bloodletting Press. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 300-copy limited hardcover.(October 2010) Deadite Press, Trade Paperback. * ''The Haunter of the Threshold'' (Summer 2009) Bloodletting Press. Limited-edition. (December 2010) Deadite Press, Trade Paperback. * ''City of Sixes'' (2009) Necro Publications. Exclusive limited-edition chapbook included with copies of ''Infernally Yours''. * ''You are My Everything'' (January 2010) Necro Publications. * ''Going Monstering'' (January 2010) Bloodletting Press. Exclusive limited-edition. * ''Header 2'' (June 2010) Camelot Books. Exclusive limited-edition. * ''The Innswich Horror'' (Summer 2010) Cemetery Dance. Limited edition (July 2010), Deadite Press Trade paperback, (2012) digital Necro Publications. * ''Lucifers Lottery'' (October 2010) Dorchester, eBook. (July 2011) trade paperback. * ''Pages Torn From a Travel Journal'' (January 31, 2011) Bloodletting Press. * ''Vampire Lodge'' (January, 2011) Necro Publications. E-Book only (second book for young readers) * ''Witch Water'' (Spring 2011) Bloodletting Press. Limited edition hardcover. (Feb. 2012) Dorchester. Paperback/eBook * ''The Dunwich Romance'' (2011) * ''The Doll House'' (2017) * ''Header 3'' (2017) with Ryan Harding; Bloodletting Press. Limited edition * ''White Trash Gothic'' (2017) * ''White Trash Gothic 2'' (2019) * ''In the Year of Our Lord: 2202'' (2019) * ''White Trash Gothic III'' (2020) * ''The Television'' (2022) * ''The Bighead's Junk'' (October 2023)

Collections

* ''The Ushers'' (1999) * ''Of Pigs and Spiders'' (1999) with John Pelan,

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and David Niall Wilson * ''Partners in Chyme'' (2001) with Ryan Harding * ''Sleep Disorder'' (2003) with

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* ''Haunted House'' (2007) * ''Brain Cheese Buffet'' (2010) Deadite Press * ''Bullet Through Your Face'' (2010) Deadite Press * ''Carnal Surgery'' (April 2011) Deadite Press * ''Mangled Meat'' (July 2011) Deadite Press

Anthologies

* ''Infernally Yours'' (2009) "The Senery" by Edward Lee Necro Publications, a limited-edition hardcover. * ''Dark Seductions: Tales of Erotic Horror'' (1993) "Private Pleasures" by Edward Lee * ''Bizarre Sex and Other Crimes of Passion'' (1994) "I"d Give Anything for You" by Edward Lee &

* ''Deadly After Dark: The Hot Blood Series'' (1994) "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee * ''Seeds of Fear: The Hot Blood Series'' (1995) " Grub Girl" by Edward Lee * ''Stranger By Night: The Hot Blood Series'' (1995) "Dead Girls in Love" by Edward Lee & Gary Bowen * ''Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium'' (1996) "The Stick Woman" by Edward Lee * ''Fear the Fever: The Hot Blood Series'' (1996) "Love Letters from the Rain Forest" by

& Edward Lee * ''White House Horrors'' (1996) "Night of the Vegetables" by Edward Lee * ''The UFO Files'' (1997) "Secret Service" by Edward Lee * ''Inside The Works'' (1997) "The Pig" by Edward Lee * ''Whitley Strieber"s Aliens'' (1998) "Scripture Girl" by Edward Lee * ''999'' (1999) "ICU" by Edward Lee * ''Graven Images'' (2000) "Masks" by

& Edward Lee * ''Triage'' (2001) "In the Year of Our Lord 2202" by Edward Lee * ''Excitable Boys'' (2002) "The McCrath Model SS40-C, Series S" by Edward Lee * ''Damned: An Anthology of the Lost'' (2004) "Angel" by Edward Lee * ''Small Bites'' (2004) "The Room" by Edward Lee

Movies

Edward Lee's story "Header" has been made into the film '' Header''. Edward Lee and

are featured in cameo roles in the movie. " Grub Girl" was made into a film in 2006.

References

External links

*
Official Website (last updated 2011)

Interviews

* Fangoria, April, 2004, issue 231
Buried

Bloody Disgusting

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