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Daniel Dersch is the pen name the author uses to ensure that readers don’t knock on his door in the middle of the night to ask him about vampires. Born in Munich, he’s the author of three #1 bestselling German-language Kindle horror titles. In his other life, Daniel is working on a PhD and collects mechanical watches.

Gerald Chapple is an award-winning translator of German literature. He received his doctorate from Harvard and went on to teach German and comparative literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been translating contemporary German-language authors for over thirty-five years. His recent works in prose include two thrillers for AmazonCrossing, The Zurich Conspiracy by Bernadette Calonego and The Russian Donation by Christoph Spielberg; two works by the Austrian writer Barbara Frischmuth, The Convent School and Chasing After the Wind, both completed with his cotranslator James B. Lawson; Michael Mitterauer’s probing history of Europe from 600 to 1600, Why Europe? Medieval Origins of Its Special Path; and Anita Albus’s wonderfully idiosyncratic book, On Rare Birds. His poetry translations have focused on Günter Kunert for almost twenty years. He lives in Dundas, Ontario, with his wife, Nina, an architectural historian, and a black Labrador. He can often be found studying birds, butterflies, and dragonflies, or listening to classical music.