STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers’ Association Bram Stoker Awards, and three International Horror Guild Awards, as well as being a multiple recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three Hellraiser movies, Nightbreed, Split Second, etc.), he has written and edited more than 120 books, including A Book of Horrors, Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books (both with Kim Newman), and the Dark Terrors, Dark Voices and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series. A Guest of Honor at the 2002 World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the 2004 World Horror Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, he has been a guest lecturer at UCLA and London’s Kingston University and St. Mary’s University College. You can visit his website at www.stephenjoneseditor.com.

ALAN LEE studied at the Ealing School of Art and went on to become a commercial artist, illustrating dozens of paperback book covers. With Brian Froud he created the groundbreaking illustrated volume Faeries (1978). Lee’s other books include The Mabinogion, Castles, and Peter Dickinson’s Merlin Dreams. After illustrating the centenary edition of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, artist and author became inextricably linked, leading to his Oscar-winning conceptual work on Peter Jackson’s acclaimed The Lord of the Rings. He is currently working on the Hobbit movies for the same director. Alan Lee’s work has won him the Kate Greenaway Award and the World Fantasy Award.