Deep RED - Softcover

Paul Kane is an award-winning, bestselling 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, the British Fantasy Award-nominated Monsters, Shadow Casting, Nailbiters, Death, Disexistence, Scary Tales and More Monsters. His novellas include The Lazarus Condition, RED and Pain Cages (a #1 Amazon bestseller). 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 include Lunar (which is set to be turned into a feature film), the short Y.A. novel The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane), the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell from Solaris and Before from Grey Matter Press. 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 (Doctor 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. His stand-alone comic The Disease, published by Hellbound Media, was also a 2016 Ghastly Award nominated title in the 'One Shot' category. 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 Carnivāle of Horror (PS) featuring Ray Bradbury and Joe Hill, and Beyond Rue Morgue from Titan, stories based around Poe's detective, Dupin. 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 'Hallows Eve' 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). His work for audio includes the full cast drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart for Bafflegab, starring Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and the Robin of Sherwood adventure The Red Lord for Spiteful Puppet/ITV, narrated by Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint). 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.