Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth in Devonshire, England, in 1949. His father was in the Army and the family spent 3 years in Malaya when Adrian was a young child, before settling back in Devon. He has worked as a librarian, an administrator in education, and is currently Director of Resources in a large secondary college in the town of Bideford, North Devon, where he now lives with his family. His interest in fantasy and science fiction stems from an early age, through Tarzan of the Apes, King Solomon's Mines, movies such as Earth versus the Flying Saucers and comics such as the original Classics Illustrated War of the Worlds, not to mention the works of Algernon Blackwood, Lovecraft, and Dennis Wheatley. It was while working in a public library in Birmingham in the late 60s that he first