The Boy With the Painted Face

Steve Toase was born in North Yorkshire, England, and now lives in the Frankenwald, Germany. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Nightmare Magazine, Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Three Lobed Burning Eye, and Shimmer amongst others. His stories have been selected for Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series, and Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. He also likes bonsai forests, old motorbikes. and vintage cocktails. His debut short story collection To Drown in Dark Water was published by Undertow Publications.