Called 'a writer of considerable energy' in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Travis is the author of six books - a short story collection, Mostly Monochrome Stories, and two novels, The Terror and the Tortoiseshell and The Designated Coconut, the former attracting the attention of several Hollywood film companies. His most recent books are a second collection of short stories, Gaseous Clay and Other Ambivalent Tales, and two chapbooks, Greenbeard and Eloquent Years of Silence. His many short stories and novellas have been published in anthologies and journals such as Nemonymous. British Invasion and in both volumes of The Humdrumming Books of Horror Stories, his story from the second volume, 'The Tobacconist's Concession' appearing on the 2009 shortlist for a British Fantasy Award. Writing what he can, when he can, if by some miracle he ever made any money from his stories about talking animals and various haunted objects and people, he'd like to move to the country or the coast, possibly Scarborough.