Dr. Melvyn J. Willin was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire and attended Francis Bacon Grammar School. After acquiring his first music degree he taught music full time and then turned to freelance guitar teaching for several years. During this time Melvyn formed the Essex Guitar Orchestra that subsequently gave concerts around the world and he also published two tutor books. He performed and taught extensively. Melvyn returned to university and obtained a masters degree at Surrey University and a PhD in parapsychology and music at Sheffield University. He returned to university again (Bristol) to take a second PhD studying witchcraft and paganism from the musical perspective. This led to him being appointed to the Council of the Pagan Federation. He has published numerous articles in a variety of journals and is currently in receipt of a Perrott-Warrick scholarship to study the parapsychological implications of witchcraft. In his role as the Honorary Archive Officer to the Council of the Society for Psychical Research he is very involved with the investigation and archiving of anomalous phenomena and he lectures in this and other related subjects. Melvyn lives in a purple fifteenth-century cottage surrounded with woods and farmland. In front of his cottage stand two Triceratopses and a similarly large dragon.