I am thrilled to learn that seven stories from Nosferatu Unbound (edited by Christopher Sequeira and myself) have been included in Ellen Datlow’s prestigious The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seventeen recommendations. The stories selected by Ellen are:

Jack Dann: “Celebration”
Kirstyn McDermott: “These Pale Shadows”
Jason Nahrung: “The Late Stage”
Deborah Sheldon: “Last of the Sacrificial Women”
H. K. Stubbs: “When Stakes are High, Stay Sharp”
Steve Rasnic Tem: “V is for Vermin”
Sal Ciano and Peter Rawlik: “The Vampyre’s Shadow”

Not forgetting Datlow’s inclusion of Steve Kilbey’s “Pages From a Diary” in the BH #17 anthology itself.

This is a fantastic achievement and we are very proud of these writers! They are all excellent stories and we are grateful they wrote them for us.

See Ellen Datlow’s full list of recommended read here: https://ellendatlow.com/category/news/

I’m very proud to have been shortlisted by the Australasian Horror Writers Association, along with my co-editor Christopher Sequeira, for the 2024 Shadows Award for best Edited Work for Nosferatu Unbound. But an anthology is only as good as the stories it contains, so congratulations and thanks to all the amazing contributors. Thanks also to Gerry Huntman and the IFWG Publishing team for supporting and publishing this book.

I am delighted to learn Steve Kilbey’s prose poem ‘Pages from a Diary’ from Nosferatu Unbound has been selected by Ellen Datlow for inclusion in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 17 anthology, and Kirstyn McDermott‘s story ‘These Pale Shadows’ has been shortlisted in the 2024 Aurealis Awards for Best Horror Short Story. Congratulations to both writers! I might be prejudiced as co-editor, but I think all the contributors to Nosferatu Unbound should be recognised for their fabulous stories and articles 🙂

Yay!! Book birthday! I’m so proud to have put this book together with Christopher Sequeira. Thank you to Gerry Huntman and IFWG Publishing! Into the Cthulhu-Universe: Lovecraftian Horrors in Other Literary Realities is a fantastic anthology, if I do say so myself. Thank you to all the wonderful writers who contributed stories to make this book outstanding! Readers can order it from their local bookshop or follow this link to purchase online: https://books2read.com/u/bPpgZd

Supanova Melbourne is done and dusted and it was fantastic. Thanks to the Supanova crew for having me as a guest, and thank you to my table buddies Jason Franks, Peter J Lawson and Jan Scherpenhuizen! And, of course, thanks to all the lovely people who stopped by to chat and buy books. I think I spent the annual household budget on books and comics myself!

It was also great to hang out with good friends. Lots of writers and artists popped by to say ‘hi’. On the book front, The Time Machine Australia Bound (PS Publishing) edited by Steve Proposch and Christopher Sequeira, and Into the Cthulhu-Universe: Lovecraftian Horrors in Other Literary Realities (IFWG Publishing) edited by me and Christopher Sequeira generated a lot of interest, which was wonderful!