Introduction by Professor William Gray, Director of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, University of Chichester; author of Death and Fantasy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and Fantasy, Art and Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). The papers are edited by G. Peter Winnington, the leading Peake scholar who has penned both a biography - Mervyn Peake’s Vast Alchemies (Peter Owen, 2009) - and a critical study - The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake’s Imagination (Liverpool University Press, 2006). He is the editor of Peake Studies and further books on Peake.