Masters, Anthony
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1940-2003) UK educator and author, active from about 1964; he was a prolific author of biographies; his eleven novels for adults are nonfantastic. Relatively early in his career, writing as Richard Tate, he published some deliberately exorbitant shockers, of which The Dead Travel Fast (1971) is of interest for its transgressive invasion of Dracula territory via a series of vampirish murders on a film set. Red Ice (1986) with Nicholas Barker is a Technothriller. Much of Masters's output for children and Young Adults is horror, though a series like Weird World, beginning with The Dark Side of the Brain (1997), allows Psi Powers explanations for the weird enablements that inspire and challenge its young protagonists. [JC]
Anthony Richard Masters
born Esher, Surrey: 14 December 1940
died Hastings, East Sussex: 4 April 2003
works (selected)
series
Roadkill
- The Beginning (London: Bloomsbury, 1995) [Roadkill: pb/Paul Kidby]
- The Alliance (London: Bloomsbury, 1995) [Roadkill: pb/Paul Kidby]
Weird World
- The Dark Side of the Brain (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997) [Weird World: pb/]
- Cloning Me, Cloning You (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997) [Weird World: pb/]
- Black Rot (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998) [Weird World: pb/Mandy Sherlicker]
- Temper, Temper (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998) [Weird World: pb/Mandy Sherlicker]
individual titles
- The Dead Travel Fast (London: Constable and Co, 1971) as by Richard Tate [hb/]
- Red Ice (London: Constable and Co, 1986) with Nicholas Baker [hb/]
- Nobody's Child (London: Hippo, 1989) [contributed to the Hauntings sequence: pb/]
- Shellshock (London: Methuen, 1990) [hb/]
- Klondyker (London: Hodder Wayland, 1991) [hb/]
- Traffic (London: Sprint, 1991) [pb/Peter Gudynas]
- Raven (London: Puffin Books, 1995) [pb/Stephen Player]
- Pisces – Revenge (London: Mammoth, 1995) as by Maria Palmer [contributed to the Horrorscopes Shared World: pb/]
- Hidden Gods: The Doorway (London: Constable and Co, 1995) with Hugh Colmer [hb/Gordon James]
- Night of the Toxic Slime (London: Scholastic, 2000) [contributed to the Mutant Point Horror Shared World: pb/Bob Lea]
works as editor
- Cries of Terror (London: Arrow Books, 1976) [anth: pb/]
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