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Steven Savile has spent the last few years working very hard at becoming an overnight success. He has edited a number of critically acclaimed anthologies, including Elemental, Redbrick Eden, and Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague. He also compiled Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions and Black Gondolier and Other Stories, the collected horror stories of Fritz Leiber.

Steven is the author of the Von Carstein Vampire trilogy (Inheritance, Dominion, Retribution) set in Games Workshop's popular Warhammer world, and soon to be re-released as Vampire Wars. He has written the best-selling original audio novel Torchwood: Hidden for BBC Audiobooks, read by Naoko Mori who plays Toshiko Sato in the BBC series. He has also written the first novel based in the Primeval universe, extending the adventures of Professor Nick Cutter and his crew out beyond the limits of the British Isles. He has re-imagined the bloodthirsty Celtic barbarian Slaine from 2000 AD in a new duology of novels for Black Flame (The Exile, The Defiler). He has also written for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and four incarnations of The Doctor.

Steven's original novels and short story collections include: The Hollow Earth, Temple: Incarnations, Laughing Boy's Shadow, Houdini's Last Illusion, Angel Road, and the graphic novel Fragrance of You (with artist Robert Sammelin). His work can also be found in the Stoker-nominated Aegri Somnia, The Solairs Book of Fantasy, Daikaiju!3, Poe's Progeny, Horrorworld's 2005 Eulogies, and Writers Digest's classic On Writing Horror. He has contributed ghostly recountings to the magazine Doorways in the United States. He was a runner up in the 2000 British Fantasy Awards, a winner of a 2002 Writers of the Future Award, and was nominated for the inaugural 2006 Scribe Award for best novel adaptation for his novel Slaine: The Exile.

Steven is currently working on a new novel for Black Library, again featuring one of the blood lines of the Vampire Counts, as well as a trilogy of Stargate SG-1 novels, two crime novels, Snuff and Hate Mail featuring his character Gabriel Rush, The Machineries of Silence the first novel set in his fantasy world of Thera, London Macabre the first full novel-length adventure of The Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club, collaborating on Rapture, a novel with Stel Pavlou, Hallowed Ground a weird western with David Niall Wilson, and Fantastic TV, a study of genre tv shows from the last 50 years. When he forgets what he is supposed to be doing he checks his website and realises it hasn't been updated for ages.