Peter Atkins was a founder member of The Dog Company, a 1970s avant-garde theatre group, along with Clive Barker and Doug Bradley- with whom he would later work on the Hellraiser movies. As well as his film and television work, he is the author of the novels Morningstar, Big Thunder, and Moontown, and the collections Wishmaster and Others, and Rumours of the Marvellous. His short fiction has also appeared in such anthologies as The Museum of Horrors, Dark Delicacies II, and Hellbound Hearts, and magazines such as Weird Tales, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Postscripts, and Cemetery Dance. He is married to Dana Middleton and lives in Los Angeles, California.
