Stephen Volk is the creator/writer of the multi award-winning paranormal drama series Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, and the notorious, some say legendary, BBCTV "Halloween hoax" Ghostwatch, which spooked the nation, hit the headlines, and caused questions to be raised in Parliament. 

An established screenwriter in Britain and the USA, his credits include Ken Russell's Gothic, a trippy retelling of the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein story; The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin; Superstition; and Octane. In TV, he wrote stand-alone scripts for Shockers and Ghosts. He also won a BAFTA for his short film script The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans. 

His first collection of crime, horror and psychological short stories, Dark Corners, was published by Gray Friar Press in 2006, from which his story 31/10 (a putative sequel to Ghostwatch) was nominated for both a British Fantasy and a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award, and appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.