Jonathan Carroll is the author of twenty novels, including the critically acclaimed The Wooden Sea, The Land of Laughs, and Outside the Dog Museum, for which he has won a British Fantasy award. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, two French Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a World Fantasy Award. He has been nomimated for the Hugo, Nebula, and John Campbell awards, and his work has been published in over thirty languages. He lives in Vienna.