Harry Heckel has written tabletop role-playing games and fiction for nearly three decades.

The Darkest Lord is his latest novel as part of the writing team of Jack Heckel, which concludes The Mysterium Trilogy. As part of Jack Heckel, he has also written the Charming Tales books, A Fairy-tale Ending and The Pitchfork of Destiny. As a co-author under the name Lee Lightner, Harry has also written Warhammer 40k Space Wolf novels for Black Library.

His start came with tabletop role-playing games, and he has multiple credits with White Wolf Game Studio, especially in the Werewolf and Mage lines, as well as the Star Wars roleplaying game from West End Games and Star Trek from Last Unicorn Games. His latest roleplaying book is Sothis Ascends for Mummy: The Curse and he has done game fiction for CMON, notably for Arcadia Quest: Inferno and Arcadia Quest: Pets. For Vampire: The Masquerade fans, he is also known as the creator of the character Marcus Vitel.

Harry is currently the 1st Vice-President of the Virginia Writers Club, as well as the Vice-President of his local chapter, the Hanover Writers Club.

You can find him at both www.harryheckel.com and www.jackheckel.com. Every November, he religiously participates in Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month). He lives in Mechanicsville, Virginia with his wife, daughter, two cats, and a rather bouncy Yorkipoo.

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