About the Author

Daniel Pretorio is a pseudonym. He writes dark literary fiction in the gothic tradition—psychological, romantic—with recurring themes of identity, mental illness, and cosmic dread. He lives in the United States.

His love of horror cinema began in childhood, when he watched Blood and Black Lace, A Bell from Hell, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? That formative diet of cinematic dread has stayed with him—the 1970s in particular, though no era has escaped his attention.

He lives with his family and two cats, neither of whom is named Poe, though both may be conspiring to brick him into his basement.