Gary Power was born in the Grand and Regal town of Bognor Regis on the costa del sol of England and is Superintendent of Neurosciences at Hurstwood Park Neurological centre in Haywards Heath. He is author of several published horror, occult and dark urban fantasy short stories. He is also a member of the British Fantasy Society and World Horror Writers association. His work is inspired by the literay prowess of authors such as Clive Barker, Adam Neville, Christopher Fowler, Simon Clark and Pete Crowther (of PS publishing fame). Other authors who have profoundly influenced him are Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson and Shirley Jackson - with a little bit of Aleister Crowley thrown in.
People who have had absolutely no influence on him are Kerry Katona, Peter Andre, Jedward, most lying, selfish politicians and any faux 'authors' who are ghost written and insist that their name is in bigger print than the title of their fatuous and shallow effort.
Through the British Fantasy Society he has met some of the most interesting, friendly, fascinating and occasionally daunting people in the industry and has hopefully acquired and distilled enough of that literary nectar to make his own writing original, stimulating and worth forking out for.
