

In an old web biography he noted in retrospect that he had no idea how those books got published. His first two novels, Night Bait and Night Lust, were published in 1982 in mass market paperback by Zebra Books under the pseudonym Philip Straker.

His novel Header was adapted for a movie and released on DVD by Synapse Films in 2009.

Lee is the author of over 40 books and many short stories which have appeared in such venues as the famous Hot Blood series, Best American Mystery Stories, and numerous mass market and specialty press anthologies through the years. He has written works that fit snugly into the bizzaro subgenre, as well as straight horror, weird fiction, and a 4-book cycle of fantastic horror beginning with City Infernal. Many of his works have a Lovecraftian bent or cosmic underpinnings, while others have a tendency toward backwoods hillbilly-horror. Edward Lee is an American author best known for novels of extreme horror that play gleefully with erotica and gore.
