Alistair Rennie is the author of sword and debauchery horror novel, "BleakWarrior". He has published dark fantasy and horror fiction, essays and poetry in "The New Weird" anthology, "Weird Tales" magazine, "Fabulous Whitby", "Electric Velocipede", "Mythic Delirium", "Pevnost", "Schlock Magazine", "Horror Without Victims", "Weird Fiction Review" and "Shadowed Realms". He was born and grew up in the North of Scotland, has lived for ten years in Italy, and now lives in Edinburgh in the South of Scotland. He holds a first class Honours Degree in Literature from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD in Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He is a time-served Painter and Decorator and a veteran climber of numerous hills and mountains in the Western Highlands, the Cairngorms and the Italian Dolomites.