P.N. «Pat» Elrod got her start in professional writing at TSR doing gaming modules. A lifelong fan of vampire stories, gangster films, and pulp magazines, she combined all three into the Vampire Files, featuring the undead detective Jack Fleming. She also wrote the Jonathan Barrett: Gentleman Vampire series, edited Time Of The Vampires with Martin H. Greenberg, and has contributed to several other anthologies. She has collaborated with actor Nigel Bennett on a new series of vampire novels, beginning with Keeper of the King.