Book description
THE DREAD RETURNS
Jon Meriweather, plucked from his own world to a place where animals
walk, talk and cast spells, is pitted once more against a deadly foe.
Now he and his strange fellowship must embark on a journey from which
none has survived.
His way lies down the treacherous river that winds through the
subterranean lair of Massaurath, Mother of Nightmares, across Helldrink
through a tunnel of cold flame to the centre of the Earth... Alan Dean
Foster (1946 - )
Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles.
Afterreceiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two
years as acopywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. His
writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long
Lovecraftian letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it as a short
story. More sales of short fiction followed. His first attempt at a
novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972.
Since then, Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but
always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all major science
fiction magazines and anthologies and several "Best of the
Year" compendiums. Five collections of his short work have been
published. Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard
science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and
contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles
on film, science, and scuba diving. He has also novelized Star Wars
movies as well as such well-known films as Alien and its two sequels.
Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games,
and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His work has won numerous
awards. He and his wife, Jo Ann Oxley, have traveled extensively
throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. His other pastimes include music,
basketball, hiking, body surfing, scuba diving, collecting animation on
video, and karate weightlifting.
