Adam L. G. Nevill was born in Birmingham in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the horror novels Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days, House of Small Shadows, No One Gets Out Alive, Lost Girl and Under a Watchful Eye. His first short-story collection, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors, was published on Halloween 2016. His novels The Ritual, Last Days and No One Gets Out Alive were winners of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. The Ritual and Last Days were also awarded Best in Category: Horror by RUSA. Many of his novels are currently in development for film and television, and in 2016 Imaginarium adapted The Ritual into a feature film. Adam lives in Devon, England.
Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream -- <i>SFX</i> An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring ""keep the light on"" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born -- Maxim Jakubowski Not everyone enjoys horror stories, but for those that do read Last Days and afterwards look for more of the same from Adam Nevill who surely has the knack of creating undertones of chilling terror in an engrossing book -- Book Bitch on <i>Last Days</i> A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best -- <i>Black Static </i>on <i>Apartment 16</i>