Paul Kane

Award-winning and bestselling UK author of dark fantasy and SF books. My latest mass market novels are the Arrowhead books, a post-apocalyptic reworking of the Robin Hood mythology. Paul Kane is an award-winning UK based horror and dark fantasy author with seven collections published (Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, FunnyBones, Peripheral Visions, The Adventures of Dalton Quayle, Shadow Writer and The Butterfly Man & Other Stories), five novellas (Signs of Life, The Lazarus Condition, Dalton Quayle Rides Out, RED and Pain Cages), three mass market novels (Arrowhead, Broken Arrow and Arrowland, post-apocalyptic reworkings of Robin Hood - Waterstone's.com and Amazon bestsellers), plus the short novel Of Darkness and Light and the supernatural thriller The Gemini Factor. I also teach art, creative writing and film/media studies, plus run workshops with my wife the horror writer Marie O'Regan. He's written more than 1000 articles and reviews for news-stand magazines (including SFX, DeathRay, Dreamwatch, Rue Morgue, Fangoria and The Dark Side) plus contributed to Wallflower's A-Z of Contemporary American Directors. My latest non-fiction books are the British Fantasy Award-nominated The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy with an introduction by Doug (Pinhead) Bradley, and Voices in the Dark - an interview book featuring the likes of John Carpenter, Betsy Palmer, Rob Zombie, Stuart Gordon and Ron Perlman. Paul also co-edit the Terror Tales and edit the Shadow Writers anthologies, and was Special Publications Editor of the British Fantasy Society for five years, where I worked on projects with authors like Clive (Abarat & Hellraiser ) Barker, Robert (Legends) Silverberg, Brian (Spielberg's A.I.) Aldiss, Stephen (Eleventh Hour) Gallagher, Muriel (Furnace & The Tube) Gray, Graham (The Manitou) Masterton, Christopher (Roofworld) Fowler and many more. His latest co-edited mass market anthologies are Hellbound Hearts, stories inspired by the Clive Barker mythology that spawned Hellraiser, including tales by Kelley Armstrong, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola, Richard Christian Matheson, Chaz Brenchley and Peter Atkins, and out now is The Mammoth Book of Body Horror from Constable & Robinson/Running Press, co-edited with Marie O'Regan, featuring the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker, James Herbert, Neil Gaiman, Mary Shelley and including the stories those classic Body Horror movies – The Thing, The Fly and Re-Animator – were based on. Coming next year is Beyond Rue Morgue from Titan books. In 2008 Paul's story 'Dead Time' was turned into an episode of the NBC/Lions Gate TV series Fear Itself. Adapted under the title 'New Year's Day' by Steve (30 Days of Night) Niles and directed by Darren (SAW II-IV & Repo) Lynn Bousman, this zombie tale starred Briana Evigan (Step Up 2: The Streets, Sorority Row) and Niall Matter (Watchmen, Eureka).