Muriel Gray

Muriel Gray graduated from Glasgow School of Art and then worked as an illustrator and then assistant head of design at the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. Playing in a punk band led her to present Channel 4's seminal music programme The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates. A successful presenting career in television and radio followed, with Muriel also founding a television production company that grew into one of the leading UK independents. Her writing career began with the...See more

Muriel Gray graduated from Glasgow School of Art and then worked as an illustrator and then assistant head of design at the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. Playing in a punk band led her to present Channel 4's seminal music programme The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates. A successful presenting career in television and radio followed, with Muriel also founding a television production company that grew into one of the leading UK independents. Her writing career began with the best-selling horror novel The Trickster, followed by two more, Furnace and The Ancient, which Stephen King described as "scary and unputdownable". She has published a further three non-fiction books, many short stories in anthologies, and has written for comics, TV, radio, cinema, and live theatre. A horror and fantasy fan from childhood, Muriel was always a secret but obsessional geek, who hid The Pan Book of Horror under her bed covers and read it with a torch. She is currently chair of The Glasgow School of Art and a trustee of the board of The British Museum. See less