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Rick Hautala (b. 1949) was born and raised in Rockport, Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Maine in Orono with a M.A. in English Literature, Hautala lives in southern Maine with author Holly Newstein. Writing under his own name as well as the pseudonym A.J. Matthews, he has published more than thirty novels and more than sixty short stories that have appeared in a variety of national and international anthologies and magazines. He is the author of the million-copy bestseller Nightstone, as well as Winter Wake, Dead Voices, Little Brothers and Cold Whisper. His most recent books under his own name include Bedbugs and The Mountain King. As “A.J. Matthews”, he has published The White Room, Looking Glass and Follow. He and artist Glenn Chadbourne are putting together two collections, Occasional Demons (short stories) and Four Octobers (novellas), for Cemetery Dance Publications. A fourth “Body of Evidence” teen thriller, Last Breath (co-written with Christopher Golden), was published in 2004 and was followed by Throat Culture. He is currently working on The Singing Sands, the first in a Young Adult series entitled Mockingbird Bay.