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Terry Lamsley (b. 1941) was born in the South of England, but lived in the North for most of his life. He eventually moved a few years ago to Amsterdam, Holland. His first collection of supernatural stories, Under the Crust, was published in a small paperback edition in 1993. Originally intended to only appeal to the tourist market in Lamsley’s home town of Buxton in Derbyshire (the volume’s six tales are all set in or around the area), its reputation quickly grew, helped when stories from the book were included in two of the annual “Year’s Best” horror anthologies. The book was subsequently nominated for three World Fantasy Awards, eventually winning for Best Novella. Ramsey Campbell accepted it on the author’s behalf, and Lamsley’s reputation as a writer of supernatural fiction began to grow. In 1997, Canada’s Ash-Tree Press reprinted Under the Crust as a handsome hardcover, limited to just 500 copies and now as sought-after as the long out-of-print first edition. A year earlier, Ash-Tree had issued a second, equally remarkable collection of Lamsley’s short stories, Conference With the Dead: Tales of Supernatural Terror, which has recently been reissued by Night Shade Books, and it was followed in 2000 by a third collection, Dark Matters. The author’s short stories have been published in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including Cemetery Dance, Dark Terrors, Lethal Kisses, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Midnight Never Comes, Subterranean Gallery, White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread, Taps and Sighs, Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James, By Moonlight Only, The Mammoth Book of New Terror, Taverns of the Dead and Fourbodings.