JAMES COOPER lives in Nottinghamshire, England, with his wife and son. He is the author of the novel THE MIDWAY (published by Crowswing Books in April 2007), and is the editor of the anthology DARK DOORWAYS (The Prufrock Press, 2006). His debut collection of short stories, YOU ARE THE FLY: TALES OF REDEMPTION & DISTRESS, was published in September 2007 by Humdrumming Books. A novella, THE LAST ACT OF RECORDED TIME, will follow from the same publisher in 2009.

He has also sold over thirty short stories to small-press magazines and anthologies in the last three years, including CEMETERY DANCE, BLACK STATIC, POSTSCRIPTS, HUB, ALL HALLOWS, MIDNIGHT STREET, NOT ONE OF US, COLD FLESH, DAIKAIJU 2, THE HARROW, BLACK PETALS, WHEN GRAVEYARDS YAWN and RED SCREAM.

He is currently heading up a project for Humdrumming entitled IN CONVERSATION: A WRITER'S PERSPECTIVE, interviewing some of today's leading practitioners of dark fiction, including Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Greg F. Gifune and Graham Joyce. For more information visit the Humdrumming website.

He is at work on his second novel, GOTHIC REVIVAL, which he hopes to have completed by the end of the year.

He can be contacted at: james.cooper01@hotmail.co.uk