About the Author

Ian Brady, along with Myra Hindley, was convicted of what became known as The Moors Murders in 1966. Brady, 62, is currently held at Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside. For some months he has been trying to starve himself to death but this year a High Court judge refused to allow him to take his own life and he is now being force-fed. Colin Wilson is the author of numerous works of fiction, philosophy, true crime and the occult. He is perhaps best known for his philosophical work The Outsider which led him to leave London and settle in Cornwall where he still lives and writes. Dr Alan Keightley is a lecturer at King Edward VI College in Stourbridge. He is also the author of Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall.