Alan Baxter is a British-Australian, multi-award-winning author of horror, supernatural thrillers and dark fantasy liberally mixed with crime, mystery and noir. This Is Horror podcast calls him “Australia’s master of literary darkness” and the Talking Scared podcast dubbed him “The Lord of Weird Australia.” He’s also a martial artist, a whisky-soaked swear monkey, and dog lover. He creates dark, weird stories among the valleys of southern Tasmania where he lives with his family and other animals.
Alan is the author of the Alex Caine Series, The Balance duology, Hidden City, Devouring Dark, and the small town folk horror novel, Sallow Bend. His latest novel is the horror thriller, Blood Covenant, published by Cemetery Dance. He’s also written several novellas, including the supernatural noir Eli Carver series, the wildly popular gonzo horror novella, The Roo, the occult thriller, The Leaves Forget, and a mosaic novel across two novella collections of weird Australian cosmic horror, The Gulp and The Fall. Alan has had more than 100 short fiction publications in journals and anthologies in Australia, the US, the UK, France, Germany and Japan, and two award-winning volumes of collected short fiction, Crow Shine and Served Cold. Alan’s work has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Taiwanese.
Alan has been a fifteen-time finalist in the Aurealis Awards, an nine-time finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards and a fourteen-time finalist in the Ditmar Awards. His 2015 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award-winning story, “In Vaulted Halls Entombed”, was adapted for Season 3 of the Netflix Original Series, LOVE DEATH +ROBOTS.
Alan is also a martial artist, having spent his life since childhood learning a variety of fighting styles. He’s now an International Master of Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu, and a Fire Dragon Disciple of Grandmaster Chen Yong Fa.
Read extracts from his novels and novellas, and find free short stories at his website – www.alanbaxter.com.au and find all this social media links at https://linktr.ee/alanbaxter
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