Alan Baxter, Best Collected Work 2016

Alan Baxter is a multi award-winning author of supernatural thrillers and urban horror, and an international master of kung fu. He runs the Illawarra Kung Fu Academy and writes stories full of magic, monsters and, quite often, martial arts. He rides a motorcycle and loves his dogs. We caught up with Alan to get the …

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The Case for Conventions – StokerCon 2018

For the past three years, I’ve attended the HWA’s annual horror convention in the United States: in Las Vegas, in Long Beach, California, and more recently, at Lovecraft’s Providence, Rhode Island. A meeting place for all manner of horror creatives, from writers, artists, filmmakers, gamers, and podcasters, the StokerCon convention is also home to the …

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Dan Rabarts, Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction 2016

Dan Rabarts is a writer, editor, sometime narrator of audio fiction, and serial award-winner on both sides of the Tasman Sea. After years publishing short stories in magazines such as Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, his first novel, Hounds of the Underworld (about which, more below), was released last year by Raw Dog …

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Richard Harland, Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story 2016

Richard Harland has been a poet, a musician, a university lecturer, and, for the last seventeen years, a full-time writer, known for The Vicar of Morbing Vyle, The Black Crusade, and his Worldshaker, Heaven & Earth, and Eddon & Vail novel series. He sports a dazzling array of steampunk headgear and also happens to be …

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Midnight Echo Issue 12 unleashed!

The new edition of Midnight Echo Magazine is here! Midnight Echo #12, edited by Shane J Cummings and Anthony Ferguson contains short stories and non-fiction by some of Australasia’s leading horror authors. The issue features fiction by Rebecca Fung Angela J. Maher Chris Mason Andrew Grenfell Matthew J. Morrison Lauren Butterworth Simon Dewar Christine Ferdinands Matthew …

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