Chris Priestley is the multi award-winning author of the Tales of Terror series and the hugely popular and award-winning Mister Creecher.

He is also a talented artist and illustrator, and his cartoons have been published in The Independent as well as other national newspapers. He lives in Cambridge.

Chris Priestley lives, writes, draws and paints in Cambridge. He has lived in England, Wales and Gibraltar. He left home in 1976 to go to art college in Manchester.

He was there for four years before heading off to London to seek his fortune as an illustrator. He worked mainly for newspapers and magazines as an editorial illustrator, caricaturist and political cartoonist.

He has always written stories, but he was an illustrator for twenty years before his first book was published. He has had at least one book published every year since and continues to illustrate as well.