Edward Lee

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born

May 25, 1957 in Bowie, Md, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.edwardleeonline.com

genre

Horror, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

influences

H.P. Lovecraft

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Edward Lee was born (er, jettisoned) into the world on May 25, 1957, and was raised in Bowie, Md. He has sold 15 novels and continues to pursue the ludicrous profession of freelance writing. From 1976-79, he served in the U.S. Army Security Agency and then was transferred to the 1st Armored Division in Erlangen, West Germany, where he was the only M60A1-series tank gunner with a security clearance. Full of German beer, he returned to Maryland and was hired as a municipal police officer in a town on the D.C. line called Cottage City, where he got to arrest a guy, witness an autopsy, stop traffic in the middle of D.C. rush hour and slap a cigarette out of a punk's mouth. He quit after three months to go back to college -- then he promptly qui...more Edward Lee was born (er, jettisoned) into the world on May 25, 1957, and was raised in Bowie, Md. He has sold 15 novels and continues to pursue the ludicrous profession of freelance writing. From 1976-79, he served in the U.S. Army Security Agency and then was transferred to the 1st Armored Division in Erlangen, West Germany, where he was the only M60A1-series tank gunner with a security clearance. Full of German beer, he returned to Maryland and was hired as a municipal police officer in a town on the D.C. line called Cottage City, where he got to arrest a guy, witness an autopsy, stop traffic in the middle of D.C. rush hour and slap a cigarette out of a punk's mouth. He quit after three months to go back to college -- then he promptly quit college because he decided he wanted to be a writer.

His first novel, written under the pen name Philip Straker, came out a year later but was a hunk of junk called Night Bait. For the next 15 years, he worked as a night watchman at a retirement community and wrote by day. He quit the night watchman job in 1997, moved to Seattle -- mainly because he got sick of Maryland PCP-brain-corroded rednecks giving him the finger for driving the speed limit, and Seattle has dungeness crabs for cheap (shellfish is of the utmost importance to him) but, lo, he eventually got sick of Seattle's nine-months-a-year of rain. He is now living life in the sunshine of St. Pete Beach, Fla.

His distant creative endeavors include more hardcore horror novels, a political thriller, a military tech thriller, a "true-life" thriller, a pop-literi abstraction for which he just won a modest grant, several horror scripts and God knows what else. His favorite horror novel is Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber; favorite short story, "Loveman's Comeback" by Ramsey Campbell; most influential author, H.P.Lovecraft. His favorite baseball team is The Only Team That Matters: the Yankees. Favorite football team? The fuckin' Redskins, who can't even beat Dallas even with their $100,000,000 worth of recently purchased superstars. Additionally, he probably cooks seafood better than any writer in the history of the genre.
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Average rating: 3.67 · 5,760 ratings · 577 reviews · 100 distinct works

	City Infernal 3.78 avg rating — 705 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Flesh Gothic 3.67 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Infernal Angel 3.88 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	House Infernal 3.86 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Monstrosity 3.42 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Backwoods 3.28 avg rating — 281 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Golem 3.45 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Messenger 3.58 avg rating — 200 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Black Train 3.66 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Brides of the Impaler 3.24 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Edward Lee

“On the coldest day of winter, I wouldn't give you the steam off my shit”
― Edward Lee, City Infernal

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“Morris chopped off the girl's hand with a hatchet then guttered laughter. The poor mulato wailed, her stump pumping.
"What'choo do that for!" Cutton bellowed. He hadn't even gotten his trousers off before Morris had pulled this move.”
― Edward Lee, The Black Train

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