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Damnation Games

*** I received an ARC in return for an honest review *** Publisherโ€™s Description Alan Baxter, editor of Damnation Games, believes horror is the genre of honesty. โ€˜With horror, thereโ€™s no shying away from brutal reality to supply a happy ending. Even when the evil is overcome, it seldom happens without cost. Survivors are rarely… Continue reading Damnation Games

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The Bloody Chamber

Publisherโ€™s Description From familiar fairy tales and legends โ€“ Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves โ€“ Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. Review I read the classic The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales by UK author Angela Carter as part of… Continue reading The Bloody Chamber

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The Haunting of Hill House

Publisherโ€™s Description Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with… Continue reading The Haunting of Hill House

Short Fiction, stories, Writing

Year Four Release

Year Four Year Four, an anthology of dark drabbles was published on January 6th by Black Hare Press. Three of my dark folklore drabbles are featured and a flash fiction piece. If youโ€™re interested in purchasing an ebook or paperback copy of Year Four, more details are available here

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Sabella

Publisherโ€™s Description On the rosy sands of a distant Earth colony, Sabella lives a quiet life in her isolated homeโ€”carefully hiding her vampirism from society. Sabella may not be undead, but she is painfully allergic to sunlight, possesses supernatural strength and speed, and feeds on fresh blood. In her youth, Sabella seduced a number of… Continue reading Sabella

events, stories, Writing

Australasian Horror Award Win

I am so excited to share the announcement that I was the 2022 winner of the Australasian Horror Writers Association Robert N Stephenson Flash Fiction & Short Story Competition for the Flash Fiction category. My story โ€œThe Carnival Girl โ€œ was a dystopian horror with LGBTQI themes and will be published in the next episode… Continue reading Australasian Horror Award Win

Long Fiction, Writing

1920s Gothic Horror

My current work-in-progress is a gothic horror set in the infamous 1920s Razor Gang era in Sydney, Australia. Some background on the Razor Gangs of Sydney. The more well-known lawless crime eras of Birmingham, Glasgow and New York had their own gangs and warfare on the streets. In Australia, it was cities of Melbourne and… Continue reading 1920s Gothic Horror

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Cut to Care

Publisherโ€™s Description An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones... The kind old woman who saved a teenager's life but now finds herself haunted by the weight of a cheated suicide... And the daughter of a candlestick maker as she tries to survive a painful existence… Continue reading Cut to Care

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Priest of Bones

Publishers Description 'Sixty-five thousand battle-shocked, trained killers came home to no jobs, no food and the plague. What did Her Majesty think was going to happen?' Tomas Piety takes his duties seriously: as a soldier, as a priest of Our Lady of Eternal Sorrows and as a leader of men. He has come home from… Continue reading Priest of Bones

Short Fiction, stories

Wandering Stars Release

The best 24 authors from the 12 volumes of Australasian speculative fiction in The Zodiac Series feature in a single anthology Wandering Stars: The Best of the Zodiac Series published by Deadset Press on 12th November 2022. Wandering Stars features my apocalyptic story โ€œThe Bull of Heavenโ€ inspired by Mesopotamian mythology and representing the Taurus… Continue reading Wandering Stars Release