Tunku Halim was born in 1964. He studied law at the University of Sussex and is a qualified UK Barrister. He has lived in the UK, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. He worked as Legal Counsel for a global IT company before turning to writing. Twenty books later, he is dubbed Asia’s Stephen King. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is regarded as ‘World Gothic’. His novel, Dark Demon Rising, was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye, was used as a study text in The National University of Singapore’s Language and Literature course. He has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia’s Star-Popular Readers’ Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.