After some very dark wilderness years indeed, staying with treehouse-dwelling unrepentant cannibals in New Guinea and seeing things that really shouldn’t be seen in Java, Leo Darke has survived the real horrors to create fictional ones instead, though some actual experiences will inevitably creep into the pages of his books... As well as writing, Leo spends his time working as a supporting actor and creature performer in TV and films, whether as a tortured sinner in Da Vinci’s Demons, sword-fighting on Atlantis and King Arthur, being a zombie in Generation Z or as one of Doctor Who’s regular Daleks...