Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and Publisher's Weekly bestselling writer. Her books include the award-winning and internationally published novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman , Timothy and the Dragon's Gate , and Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X. (with bestselling author Frank Beddor), as well as the steampunk novel The Friday Society and the gothic novel Outcast .

She is also the author of the quirky three-book series The Explorers. Adrienne's first foray into writing horror came with her work on the Bendy and the Ink Machine novels and, more recently, the Five Nights At Freddy's interactive novel Return to the Pit, but as an actor she has had the pleasure of being creepy in such horror films as Devil's Mile and Wolves . And she took great pleasure in getting to haunt teenagers in SyFy's Neverknock . She is also the co-writer and co-producer of the indie horror film The Devil Comes At Night with her husband Scott (though her cat, Atticus, insists on a shared producer credit). Find her at AdrienneKress.com and on Twitter/Instagram @AdrienneKress.