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alan baxter author of horror and weird fiction home books by alan and fire poured forth the alex caine series the balance series blood covenant the book club crow shine devouring dark ghost of the black golden fortune dragon jade tales from the gulp hidden city the leaves forget recall the complete eli carver the roo sallow bend served cold dark rite the sam aston investigations the jake crowley adventures write the fight right the martial art of writing bibliography free stories press kit blog contact select page author of horror and weird fiction alan baxter is australia s master of literary darkness this is horror the lord of weird australia talking scared baxter delivers the horror goods paul tremblay welcome to my website you ll find all kinds of things here including some free fiction you can learn all about my books on the books by alan page and there s a full bibliography too if you want to track anything down use the contact page to reach me via email or to find all my social media links including my patreon and ko fi scroll down for all that official third person stuff and further down are a load of links to interviews i ve done over the years alan baxter is a multi award winning british australian author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories encompassing horror weird fiction dark fantasy crime and more he s also a martial artist whisky soaked swear monkey metalhead and dog lover he writes his darkly strange tales deep in the valleys of southern tasmania a former president of the australasian horror writers association 2020 to 2023 alan has been a fifteen time finalist in the aurealis awards a nine time finalist in the australian shadows awards and a fifteen time finalist in the ditmar awards award wins 2021 aurealis award for best collection for the gulp 2014 australian shadows award for best short story for shadows of the lonely dead 2015 australian shadows paul haines award for long fiction for in vaulted halls entombed 2016 australian shadows award for best collection for crow shine 2019 australian shadows award for best collection for served cold 2023 australian shadows award for best short fiction for all the eyes that see alan is also a past winner of the ahwa short story competition it s always the children who suffer and his work has made the preliminary ballot for the bram stoker awards three times crow shine 2016 bram stoker award tm for superior achievement in a fiction collection the gulp 2021 bram stoker award tm for superior achievement in a fiction collection and sallow bend 2022 bram stoker award tm for superior achievement in a novel alan s 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 has competed in a number of competitions in the uk australia and china in 1996 he won the wutan federation british national championship title in the uk he s now an international master of choy lee fut kung fu and lohan qigong and a fire dragon disciple of grandmaster chen yong fa just to be absolutely clear i will never use generative ai in the writing of my books nor will i allow it in the production of my books be that cover art audio editions marketing or anything else there is a clause now in all my future contracts stating this position generative ai is built on theft it s environmentally catastrophic and it makes everything worse fuck ai representation for all publishing queries including reprints film tv options and foreign rights please contact alan s agent becky lejeune of confluence literary agency llc media inquiries there s a full press kit here contact alan with any queries at email protected appearances workshops and presentations alan has previously appeared as a guest and panelist at conventions festivals events and writers centres around australia new zealand and the usa he s been a guest at the supanova and oz comic con fan expos in several cities alan has been a guest of honour at conflux swancon and geysercon nz he s run workshops on all kinds of writing related subjects including short story clinics novel writing fight and action scenes author platform social media and more at worldcon schools libraries and several state writers centres among other venues if you d like alan to be a guest at your event or to come and speak at your school library writers group etc please get in touch here s a full page about alan s workshops click here for a full bibliography of alan s work previous interviews if you d like to learn a lot more about me my writing my influences and life in general feel free to check out any of these interviews including text video and podcasts i ve done over the years in depth with ginger nuts of horror talking gulpepper mythos and much more february 2026 chatting on the talking scared podcast episode 194 may 2024 author showcase interview at fanfiaddict november 2023 world of horror interview with the hwa august 2023 interview at nightmare fuel may 2023 reddit ama august 2022 a new era for novellas the indy writer podcast video july 2022 chatting on the talking scared podcast episode 86 april 2022 chatting on the this is horror podcast episode 336 march 2020 why i wrote this is horror february 2019 chatting on the this is horrror podcast episode 246 december 2018 horrortree interview june 2018 7 tips for writing horror creative penn november 2018 chatting on the this is horror podcast episode 174 october 2017 jamberoo s alan baxter on the writing and the fighting illawarra mercury march 2017 how to write short stories that sell video creative penn 2017 so you want to be a writer podcast and transcript august 2016 interview with csfg publetariat july 2009 this is my official logo you ll see it all over this website and elsewhere i wrote in detail about all the elements of it and why 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