Paul Kane is an award-winning 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 and the British Fantasy Award-nominated Monsters. His novellas include The Lazarus Condition, RED and Pain Cages. 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 are Lunar (which is set to be turned into a feature film), Sleeper(s) (a modern, horror version of Sleeping Beauty), the short Y.A. novel The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane), the sequel to RED-Blood RED-also from SST Publications, and the critically-acclaimed Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell from Solaris. 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 (Dr 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. 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 Carnivale of Horror (PS) featuring Ray Bradbury and Joe Hill, and Beyond Rue Morgue from Titan, stories based around Poe's detective, Dupin. His non-fiction books are The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, Voices in the Dark and Shadow Writer-The Non-Fiction. Vol. 1: Reviews and Vol. 2: Articles and Essays, plus his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Fangoria, Dreamwatch, Gorezone, Rue Morgue and DeathRay. He has been a Guest at Alt.Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, Edge-Lit in 2014, HorrorCon, HorrorFest and Grimm Up North in 2015, plus The Dublin Ghost Story Festival and Sledge-Lit in 2016, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention, and a fiction judge at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. He is a former Special Publications Editor of the British Fantasy Society and is currently serving as co-chair of the UK arm of the Horror Writers Association. 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 "7th Dimension" 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). 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.
