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Chaz Brenchley (Charles Richard Brenchley) (b. 1959) was born in Oxford, England, and was inspired to become a fantasy writer after meeting J. R. R. Tolkien at the age of twelve. He briefly attended St. Andrews University, before leaving in 1977 to become a full-time writer. After contributing hundreds of (mostly anonymous) stories to teenage romance and women’s magazines, and children’s comics, he published the pseudonymous romance novel, Time Again by “Carol Trent”, in 1983. His first accredited book was the crime novel The Samaritan (1988), followed by The Refuge, The Garden and Mall Time. As “Daniel Fox” he contributed stories to the Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror anthology series and The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein. Before he could develop the pseudonym further, the horror novel Paradise (1994) was published under his own name. Dead of Light, Dispossession, the British Fantasy Award-winning Light Errant and Shelter followed. Brenchley’s books often reveal a moral conscience found lacking in much mainstream horror fiction. His “Outremer” fantasy series is set during the Crusades in Palestine, and titles published to date include Tower of the King’s Daughter, Feast of the King’s Shadow and Hand of the King’s Evil. He is also the author of three children’s books: The Thunder Sings, The Fishing Stone and The Dragon in the Ice, while Blood Waters is a collection of short stories.