Genre Horror Name Edward Lee | Role Novelist | |
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Born May 25, 1957 (age 66) Washington, D.C., United States ( 1957-05-25 ) Occupation novelist, short story writer Education University of Maryland, College Park Movies Edward Lee's The Bighead, Header, The Cut Runs Deep Books The Bighead, Flesh Gothic, City Infernal, Creekers, Infernal Angel Similar People Jack Ketchum, John Pelan, Thomas Piccirilli, John H Lee | ||
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Edward Lee (born May 25, 1957) is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror who has written 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York City paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester, Berkley, and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award 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 Germany, Greece, Romania, and Poland. 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. While a number of Lee’s projects have been optioned for film, only one has been made, Header, which was released on DVD in June 2009.
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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 Bowie, Maryland. 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 Cottage City, Maryland. 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 H. P. Lovecraft; 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 Cthulhu Mythos. 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.” Lee promises more Lovecraftian work on the horizon.