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John Gordon (b. 1925) was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne, England and now lives in Norwich with his wife Sylvia. As a child, he moved with his family to Wisbech in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, where he went to school. After serving in the Royal Navy on minesweepers and destroyers during World War II, he became a journalist on various local newspapers. His first book for young adults, The Giant Under the Snow, was published by Hutchinson in 1968 and garnered praise from Alan Garner, among others. Since then, he has published a number of fantasy and horror novels, including The House on the Brink, The Ghost on the Hill, The Quelling Eye, The Grasshopper, Ride the Wind, Secret Corridor, Blood Brothers, Gilray’s Ghost, The Flesh Eater, The Midwinter Watch, Skinners and The Ghost of Blacklode. Gordon’s short stories are collected in The Spitfire Grave and Other Stories, Catch Your Death and Other Stories and The Burning Baby and Other Stories. He was one of five authors who contributed to the Oxrun Station “mosaic novel” Horror at Halloween, edited by Jo Fletcher, and his autobiography Ordinary Seaman appeared from Walker Books in 1992.