PETER RAWLIK is a long-time collector of Lovecraftian fiction and in 1985 stole a car to go see the film Re-Animator. He successfully defended himself by explaining that his father had regularly read him "The Rats in the Walls" as a bedtime story. His first professional sale was in 1997 but he didn't begin to write seriously until 2010. Since then, he has authored more than fifty short stories and the Cthulhu Mythos novels Reanimators, The Weird Company, Reanimatrix, The Peaslee Papers, and The Eldritch Equations. He is a frequent contributor to the Lovecraft eZine. In 2014 his short story "Revenge of the Reanimator" was nominated for a New Pulp Award. In 2015 he co-edited The Legacy of the Reanimator for Chaosium. Somewhere along the line he became known as the Reanimator guy, but he fervently denies being obsessed with the character. His short stories are collected in both Strange Company and Others and The Cthulhu Heresy and Other Lovecraftian Sins. He lives in southern Florida where he works on Everglades issues and does a lot of fishing.