A lifelong New Yorker, T. E. D. Klein was the founding editor of "Twilight Zone Magazine" from 1981 to 1985. His first (and so far only) novel, "The Ceremonies," was a New York Times bestseller and won the 1984 British Fantasy Society award. In 1985 he published "Dark Gods," a collection of four novellas, one of which, "Nadelman's God," won the 1986 World Fantasy Award; another, "Children of the Kingdom," was cited by Victor LaValle in the New York Times as "the greatest New York City horror story of all time." He later edited the true-crime magazine "CrimeBeat" and wrote the screenplay for Dario Argento's thriller "Trauma." His nonfiction writing has been collected in "Providence After Dark." In 2012, the World Horror Convention bestowed on him its Grand Master award. "In close to 25 years of writing," says literary critic S. T. Joshi, "Klein has only two books and a handful of scattered tales to his credit, and yet his achievement towers gigantically over that of his more prolific contemporaries."
