Muriel Gray

Muriel Gray is a BA honours graduate in graphic design and illustration of the Glasgow School of Art, and worked as a professional illustrator before joining the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh as assistant head of design. She became a bestselling novelist with the publication of her debut horror novel, The Trickster, in 1995, and this was followed by Furnace in 1998 and The Ancient in 2001, which Stephen King hailed as being `scary and unputdownable'. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and three children. Her greatest disappointment is that she has not yet been abducted by aliens.