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Muriel Gray graduated from Glasgow School of Art, and worked as an illustrator and museum exhibition designer. After presenting the iconic music programme The Tube, a long career in broadcasting followed, including founding a television production company. An award-winning opinion writer in many publications, she is the author of three horror novels, The Trickster, Furnace and The Ancient, and many short stories. She was the first female rector of Edinburgh University, is chair of the board of governors of Glasgow School of Art, and a trustee on the board of the British Museum. She lives in Glasgow.
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John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. He is the author of almost thirty books, including the Charlie Parker mystery series, The Book of Lost Things and he. He divides his time between Dublin and Maine, and is mostly kind to animals, old people and small children.
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M. R. Carey read English at Oxford University and taught Media and Communication at secondary and FE levels before resigning in 1999 to pursue writing full time. He writes across many different media but is best known as a novelist and comic book writer. His graphic novel series Lucifer has been developed as a major TV series. His novel The Girl With All the Gifts has sold over a million copies in English-language editions and became a critically acclaimed motion picture based on his own screenplay, for which he received the British Screenwriters’ Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He has also written eleven other novels, including two collaborations with his wife Linda and their daughter Louise.
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Josh Malerman is the author of Bird Box, Black Mad Wheel, Goblin and Unbury Carol. He’s also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song “The Luck You Got” can be heard as the theme song for the hit Showtime show Shameless.
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Helen Grant writes thrillers with a Gothic flavour, and ghost stories. Her first novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and won an ALA Alex Award in the US. Since then she has produced six other novels, the latest of which is Ghost (Fledgling Press, 2018), and a collection of short supernatural fiction, The Sea Change & Other Stories. Helen has lived in Spain, Germany and Flanders, and now lives in Scotland. Her novels and stories are largely inspired by these places and other intriguing locations she has visited.
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Formerly a punk-cabaret singer and composer, A. K. Benedict is now “one of the new stars of crime with a supernatural twist” (Sunday Express). Her debut novel, The Beauty of Murder, was shortlisted for the eDunnit award and is in development for an eight-part TV series. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Best British Short Stories, Magma, Great British Horror, New Fears and Best British Horror Stories; her audio drama includes episodes of Doctor Who and Torchwood. Her second novel, The Evidence of Ghosts, published by Orion, explores her obsession with haunted London. She lives in Rochester with writer Guy Adams and their dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.
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Kelley Armstrong is the author of the Cainsville modern gothic series and the Rockton crime thrillers. Past works include the Otherworld urban fantasy series, the Darkest Powers & Darkness Rising teen paranormal trilogies, the Age of Legends fantasy YA series and the Nadia Stafford crime trilogy. Armstrong lives in Ontario, Canada with her family.
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George Mann is a Sunday Times bestselling novelist and scriptwriter. He is the author of the Newbury & Hobbes Victorian mystery series, as well as four novels about a 1920s vigilante known as The Ghost. He has also written bestselling Doctor Who novels, new adventures for Sherlock Holmes and the supernatural crime series, Wychwood.
His comic writing includes extensive work on Doctor Who, Dark Souls and Warhammer 40,000, as well as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for younger readers. He has written audio scripts for Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Sherlock Holmes, Warhammer 40,000 and more, and for a handful of high-profile iOS games. As editor, he has assembled four anthologies of original Sherlock Holmes fiction, as well as multiple volumes of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy.
His website is at www.george-mann.com.
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Mark A. Latham is a writer, editor, history nerd, proud dogfather, frustrated grunge singer and amateur baker from Staffordshire, UK. An immigrant to rural Nottinghamshire, he lives with his wife, Alison, in a very old house (sadly not haunted), and is still regarded in the village as a foreigner.
Formerly the editor of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine, Mark dabbled in tabletop games design before becoming a full-time author of strange, fantastical and macabre tales. His Apollonian Casefiles series, and his Sherlock Holmes novels, A Betrayal in Blood and The Red Tower, are available now.
Visit Mark’s blog at http://thelostvictorian.blogspot.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @aLostVictorian.
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Paul Tremblay is the award-winning author of seven novels including The Cabin at the End of the World, A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and The Little Sleep. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly.com and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his wife and two children.
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Formerly a film critic, journalist, screenwriter and teacher, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart), two chap-books of speculative poetry, a Weird Western trilogy (the Hexslinger series – A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones), a story-cycle (We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven) and a standalone novel (Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst award for Best Adult Novel). All her works are available through ChiZine Productions. Her novella Coffle has just been published by Dim Shores, with art by Stephen Wilson. She has two upcoming story collections from Trepidatio Publishing (Spectral Evidence and Drawn Up From Deep Places), and one from Cemetery Dance (Dark Is Better).
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Alison Littlewood’s latest novel is The Crow Garden, a tale of obsession set amidst Victorian asylums and séance rooms. It follows The Hidden People, a Victorian tale about the murder of a young girl suspected of being a fairy changeling. Alison’s other novels include A Cold Silence, Path of Needles, The Unquiet House and Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now. Her first book, A Cold Season, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club and described as “perfect reading for a dark winter’s night”.
Alison’s short stories have been picked for several year’s best anthologies and have been published in her collections Quieter Paths and Five Feathered Tales. She has won the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction.
Alison lives with her partner Fergus in Yorkshire, England, in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls. You can visit her at www.alisonlittlewood.co.uk.
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