CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO has been nominated for the Edgar, the World Fantasy, and the Bram Stoker Awards. She has been named a Grand Master of the World Horror Convention and a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild, and has won both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards for Lifetime Achievement. She is of many novels of horror, dark fantasy, mystery and more, including the critically acclaimed St. Germain series, which began with Hotel Transylvania, a novel that was nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Yarbro lives in Berkeley, California.