Thomas F. Monteleone is a five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the author of more than thirty books and 100 short stories in magazines and anthologies, and the 2017 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association. His books and stories have been translated into fifteen foreign languages. His story collection Fearful Symmetries is the winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award.