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 …
Apr 03
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 …
Jan 30
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 …
Dec 29
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 …


