A lifelong Edgar Rice Burroughs reader, Win Scott Eckert is the author of the ERB Universe novel Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar. He is also the authorized legacy author of science fiction Grand Master Philip Jos� Farmer's Patricia Wildman series (The Evil in Pemberley House, The Scarlet Jaguar), as well as the coauthor with Farmer of the fourth volume in the Secrets of the Nine series, the Doc Caliban novel The Monster on Hold. His other professional credits include authorized tales of Zorro, the Phantom, Honey West, the Avenger, the Lone Ranger, and the Green Hornet, as well as numerous other stories featuring Phileas Fogg, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Domino Lady, and Sherlock Holmes, among others. He lives in Colorado with his wife and a bevy of four-legged family members. Christopher Paul Carey is the author of several books, including the ERB Universe novel Victory Harben: Fires of Halos; Swords Against the Moon Men, an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Moon Maid; Exlies of Kho; The Song of Kwasin (with Philip Jos� Farmer); Hadon, King of Opar; and Blood of Ancient Opar . He has also written comic books featuring Burroughs' characters such as Tarzan, Dejah Thoris, Carson of Venus, Jason Gridley, and Gretchen von Harben. Carey is Vice President of Publishing and creative director of the ERB Universe at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by Mr. Burroughs in 1923. He lives in Southern California.