About the Author and Foreword Writer

The Author

Tara Samms was born in 1971 and has watched far too much television all her life.

A woman of mystery, she enjoys sitting both behind and in front of the artist’s easel and is the vexed owner of an insomniac hound dog: he slept once.

Tara's other writing credits include 'Glass' (Short Trips, 1998), 'Totem' (More Short Trips, 1999), 'Monsters' (Short Trips and Sidesteps, 2000), 'Distance' (Short Trips: Companions, 2003), 'Face-painter' (Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors, 2003), and the forthcoming 'Mordieu' (Short Trips: The Muses, 2003), so Frayed represents her longest mature work to date.

The Foreword Writer

Stephen Laws was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1952. He began writing fiction at the age of eight and his debut novel, Ghost Train, was published 1985. Since then he has published a further nine novels: Spectre, The Wyrm, The Frighteners, Darkfall, Gideon, Macabre, Daemonic, Somewhere South of Midnight and Chasm.

His short stories have been collected in The Midnight Man and a shared collection (with Mark Morris) was published as Voyages into Darkness.

A short story collaboration with Simon Clark, Annabel Says, was published by the British Fantasy Society. Gideon was winner of the Count Dracula Society Award for Best Vampire Novel, and his short story 'The Song My Sister Sang' won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 1999.

His books have been widely translated and his short stories have appeared on local radio and in newspapers.

Visit Stephen's website @ www.stephenlaws.com