‘The Glass Princess’
K R Boyter

Personal Biography:

“A man can do all things if he wills them.”
Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472)

Born in Hertford, Ken is a writer and performer, co-creator and host of the fantasy YouTube channel The Bottled Imp, and creator of the Mythical Tales from Edra.

Ken created the Mythical Tales from Edra to showcase his fantasy literature, spoken word audiobooks, visuals, and creative projects, all set in the mythical world of Edra. Ken’s love of writing and storytelling started early; he loved listening to his mum read him stories in bed; ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak being his favourite. He’s fond memories of sitting in front of the telly after school, watching ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, ‘Jim Henson’s The Storyteller’, ‘Knightmare’, ‘The Adventure Game’, and ‘Monkey’. All those immersive stories had one thing in common: fantasy.

Ken studied English Literature at the University of Sussex to gain critical insights into the novel. One of his favourite modules was the Gothic Horror where he studied classics such as ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus’ (Mary Shelley), ‘Dracula’ (Bram Stoker), ‘Turn of the Screw’ (Henry James), and ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (Robert Louis Stevenson). This encouraged him to write his illustrated epic folklore verse-book ‘The Legends of Grimous Ironblood’, and thus create the world of Edra.