Edward Lee (writer)

Edward Lee is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror who has writtenbooks, more than half of which have been published by massmarket New York paperback companies such as LeisureDorchester, Berkley, and ZebraKensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story Mr. Torso, and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen massmarket anthologies, including the awardwinning 999. Several of his novels have sold translation rights to Germany, Greece, Romania, and Poland. He also publishes quite actively in the smallpresslimitededition hardcover market many of his books in this category have become collectors items. While a number of Lees projects have been optioned for film, only one has been made, Header, which was released on DVD in June 2009.

Lee is particularly known for overthetop occult concepts and an accelerated treatment of erotic andor 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 late70s he served in the U.S. Armys 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 overyears, 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 fulltime writer, first spending several years in Seattle and then moving to Largo, Florida, where he currently resides.

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