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Jeremy Dyson is best known as the co-creator and co-writer of the multi-award-winning comedy show The League of Gentlemen. Aside from The League he was co-creator/writer of the BAFTA-nominated comedy drama Funland and the Rose-d’or winning all female sketch show Psychobitches. His play Ghost Stories, co-written with Andy Nyman, was nominated for an Olivier award, and has enjoyed multiple London West End runs, together with many international productions. The film version of Ghost Stories, written and directed by Andy and Jeremy won the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for best debut feature in 2019. Jeremy has published three collections of short stories: Never Trust a Rabbit, The Cranes that Build the Cranes (winner of the Edge Hill Award for short fiction), and The Haunted Book, together with a novel, What Happens Now. His most recent novel The Warlock Effect, co-written with Andy Nyman, was published in 2023.Ramsey Campbell is one of the most prolific and honoured British horror writers, with forty novels to his name and several hundred short stories since 1964. His admirers include Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, Joanne Harris and Ian Rankin. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”, and the Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction”. His awards include the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.