Ian Fryer is a writer and film historian. He spent much of the 1990s as editor of Impact: The Action Movie Magazine and is co-editor of FAB: The Official Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society Magazine. In recent years, Fryer has put his fascination with and encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of cinema and television to work in writing the books The Worlds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and The British Horror Film. He lives in Northern England with his partner, two cats, and a huge library of books and DVDs which be promises will all be read and watched someday.