Graham Joyce is a three-time winner of the August Derleth Award, also known as the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, for Dark Sister (1992), Requiem (1995), and The Tooth Fairy (1996). Joyce quit an executive job and went to the Greek Island of Lesbos to live in a beach shack with a colonty of Scorpions (which became the setting for House of Lost Dreams [1993]) to concentrate on writing. Joyce's short stories have appeared in several anthologies, and his novels have been widely translated. He currently lives in England.
