About the Author

After army service James Wade (1930-1983) settled in Korea and he wrote widely on music for a variety of periodicals. His symphonic and chamber music has been performed in many countries, and he completed an opera based on Richard E. Kim's best-selling novel of the Korean War, "The Martyred". He wrote a column for The Korea Times and his work has been anthologised by such noted editors as August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart David Schiff and Herbert Val Thal. Collection: Shards of Darkness (Mythos Books 2000). Anthologies: The Disciples of Cthulhu (DAW 1976), The Disciples of Cthulhu II (Chaosium 2003), Spoor Anthology 2 (The Strange Company 1974) Short stories in Space and Time, Eldritch Tales, Crossroads, The Sorcerer's Apprentices, Innsmouth Tales and others. Fritz Leiber was the award-author of many horror, fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories. Influenced initially by H, P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, he went on to write many great pieces of genre fiction and created the heroic fantasy characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.