Jack Ketchum is the author of thirty-one books, thirteen of them novels, five of which have been filmed to date -- THE LOST, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, RED, OFFSPRING, and THE WOMAN, the last of which won him and Lucky McKee the Best Screenplay award at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. He is the five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, most recently for Lifetime Achievement. In 2011 he was elected Grand Master by the World Horror Convention.