About the Author
Paul Kane is an award-winning, bestselling writer and editor based in Derbyshire, UK. His short story collections include Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, FunnyBones, Peripheral Visions, Shadow Writer, The Adventures of Dalton Quayle, The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, The Spaces Between, Ghosts, the British Fantasy Award-nominated Monsters, Shadow Casting, Nailbiters, Death, Disexistence, Scary Tales and More Monsters. His novellas include The Lazarus Condition, RED and Pain Cages (a #1 Amazon bestseller). He is the author of such novels as Of Darkness and Light, The Gemini Factor and the bestselling Arrowhead trilogy (Arrowhead, Broken Arrow and Arrowland, gathered together in the sellout omnibus edition Hooded Man), a post-apocalyptic reworking of the Robin Hood mythology. His latest novels include Lunar (which is set to be turned into a feature film), the short Y.A. novel The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane), the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell from Solaris and Before from Grey Matter Press. He has also written for comics, most notably for the Dead Roots zombie anthology alongside writers such as James Moran (Torchwood, Cockneys vs. Zombies) and Jason Arnopp (Doctor Who, Friday the 13th, The Last Days of Jack Sparks) and as part of the team turning Clive Barker's Books of Blood into motion comics for Seraphim/MadeFire. His stand-alone comic The Disease, published by Hellbound Media, was also a 2016 Ghastly Award nominated title in the 'One Shot' category. Paul is co-editor of the anthology Hellbound Hearts (Simon & Schuster) -stories based around the mythology that spawned Hellraiser-The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (Constable & Robinson/Running Press), featuring the likes of Stephen King and James Herbert, A Carnivàle of Horror (PS) featuring Ray Bradbury and Joe Hill, and Beyond Rue Morgue from Titan, stories based around Poe's detective, Dupin. His work has been optioned for film and television, and his zombie story 'Dead Time' was turned into an episode of the Lionsgate/NBC TV series Fear Itself, adapted by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II-IV). He also scripted The Opportunity, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Wind Chimes (directed by Brad 'Hallows Eve' Watson and which sold to TV), The Weeping Woman-filmed by award-winning director Mark Steensland, starring Tony-nominated actor Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night) -and Confidence, directed by award-winning Mike Clarke (A Hand to Play, Paper and Plastic) which stars Simon Bamford (Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Starfish). His work for audio includes the full cast drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart for Bafflegab, starring Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and the Robin of Sherwood adventure The Red Lord for Spiteful Puppet/ITV, narrated by Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint). You can find out more at his website www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Dean Koontz, Robert Kirkman, Charlaine Harris and Guillermo del Toro.Barbie Wilde is best known for playing the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II. She also featured in Death Wish 3, Grizzly II: The Concert and in the Bollywood blockbuster, Janbazz. As a member of the music-dance group Shock, she supported artists such as Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Adam and the Ants and Gary Numan in the early 1980s. Wilde also wrote and hosted eight different music and film review TV programs in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2009, Wilde moved into writing horror and crime with the publication of her first well-received Female Cenobite short horror story, "Sister Cilice," for the Hellhound Hearts anthology, edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan. The publication of her debut diary-of-a-serial-killer novel, The Venus Complex, by Comet Press in 2012 prompted America's best-selling horror magazine Fangoria to call her "one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around". The Venus Complex will be released as an audio book in autumn 2018, narrated by Hellraiser's Doug "Pinhead" Bradley. Wilde's illustrated collection of short horror stories, Voices of the Damned, published by SST Publications in 2015, was called "sensual in its brutality" and "a delight for the darker senses" in a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Voices of the Damned was nominated for the Best Horror Story Collection Award by This is Horror, 2015. Wilde is now collaborating as co-producer and co-screenplay writer with ex-Fangoria Editor-in-Chief and director Chris Alexander (Blood for Irina, Female Werewolf, Blood Dynasty) on the feature length horror movie, Blue Eyes, based on her short story of the same name.Dave McKean has illustrated and designed over eighty award winning and ground breaking books and graphic novels including The Magic of Reality (Richard Dawkins), The Homecoming (Ray Bradbury), The Fat Duck Cookbook and Historic Heston (Heston Blumenthal), What's Welsh for Zen (John Cale), Varjak Paw and Phoenix (SF Said), The Savage, Slog's Dad and Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (David Almond), Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison), Night Shift (Stephen King), and Mr. Punch, Signal to Noise, Coraline and the Newberry and Carnegie Medal winning The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman). He has written and illustrated Cages (Harvey, Pantera, Ignatz and Alph Art awards), two Pictures That Tick volumes of short stories (V+A Book of the Year), an erotic novel Celluloid, and Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash, a commission by the 14-18 Now Foundation and the Imperial War Museum. The multimedia live performance of Black Dog was featured at Tate Britain, the Somme Memorial in Amiens, and many other festivals in Europe and Canada. Dave has directed five short films and three feature films, MirrorMask, Luna (Raindance Festival Best British Feature and BIFA awards) and The Gospel of Us with Michael Sheen (two Bafta Cymru awards). He is currently editing his fourth feature Wolf's Child, adapted from his own play, created with Wildworks Theatre Company and performed for the Norwich Theatre Festival and at the Trelowarren Estate in Cornwall. He is Director of Story at the 3-Michelin star The Fat Duck in Bray, and has created murals and packaging for Heston's restaurants in London and Australia. His work is in private and public collections around the world, and he continues to insist that narrative has a crucial place in art. His next publishing projects to be released are Joe Quinn's Poltergeist with David Almond, A Suicide Bomber Sat in the Library, a book backed by Amnesty International with author Jack Gantos, a book of Venice drawings, a long graphic novel inspired by the expressionist classic of German silent cinema The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and a narrative project for the Louvre in Paris.
