Lisa Tuttle (Introduction) is an award-winning American-born writer living in Scotland who has been writing (and reading) ghost stories for more than fifty years. Three of her short story collections, including the latest, Riding the Nightmare, are in print. Her first novel, Windhaven, was written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin. Her most recent novel, The Curious Affair of the Missing Mummies, is the third in a series of supernaturally tinged mysteries set in 1890s London.