PAUL KANE

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Biography

Paul Kane is a #1 bestselling and award-winning author and editor, who has had over a hundred and sixty books published in the fields of SF, YA and Horror/Dark Fantasy – including The Arrowhead trilogy, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell and the Cursed duology. In terms of crime fiction, previous books include the PL Kane novels Her Last Secret, Her Husband’s Grave (a sellout on Waterstones.com and at The Works) and The Family Lie (all three novels were Amazon sellouts), the two Nailbiters collections and the anthologies Exit Wounds, which contains stories by the likes of Lee Child, Dean Koontz, Val McDermid and Dennis Lehane, and Death Comes at Christmas featuring CL Taylor, Angela Clarke and Tina Baker. Paul has been a guest at many events and conventions, and has had work optioned and adapted for film and television (including by Lions Gate/NBC, for primetime US network TV). Several of his stories have been turned into short movies and Loose Canon Films/Hydra Films adapted ‘Men of the Cloth’ into a feature, Sacrifice (aka The Colour of Madness) starring Barbara Crampton from You’re Next, released by Epic Pictures/101 Films. Paul’s audio drama work for places such as Bafflegab and Spiteful Puppet/ITV features the acting talents of people like Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who/Shetland), Alice Lowe (Prevenge) and Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint), plus his plays have been performed at FantasyCon in Nottingham and by Hideout Theatre in London. His books have been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Bulgarian and Polish.