Nancy Baker’s life-long love of horror and fantasy can be traced back to her earliest horror-reading experience: Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Baker’s writing career began in 1988 with her first sale to Rod Serling’s The Twilight ZoneMagazine; she has since published four novels: A Terrible Beauty, The Night Inside, Blood and Chrysanthemums, and Cold Hillside, as well as a short story collection. Baker lives in Toronto.