The cat is out of the bag! I’m thrilled to have worked with the indefatigable Christopher Sequeira to bring Into the Cthulhu-Universe into the world. It was a joy to co-edit this anthology. Thank you to all the brilliant writers who contributed amazing stories (check out the table of contents in the link below!). And what about the stunning cover art by Dillon Naylor and fabulous design by Greg Chapman! Thanks to Gerry Huntmanand IFWG Publishing.
Thanks to Aurealis – The Australian Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for a wonderful review of Nosferatu Unbound edited by me and Christopher Sequeira (published by IFWG Publishing). For the full review see Aurealis 175. In summary, Chris Foster wrote:
“Nosferatu Unbound is a wonderfully-fun anthology. While the reader will get used to similar unveilings in the descriptions of Nosferatu himself—a natural risk of having every story about such an iconic creature—the topics, time eras, living situations and prose are so varied that each tale feels fresh compared to the last. This anthology will appeal to all manner of horror readers, whether they know the name Nosferatu or not.”
And, of course, Nosferatu Unbound is available from your favourite bookseller.
Yay! Book birthday! Nosferatu Unbound is unleashed into the world. Thanks to all the awesome writers who contributed to this project! And thanks to my co-editor Christopher Sequeira and IFWG Publishing for bringing it to life! And thanks to Chantal Handley for the cover art, Dillon Naylor for the frontispiece and backpiece art and Greg Chapman for the book design!
We had a fantastic book launch for Nosferatu Unbound on Friday 13th September at Collins Booksellers in the Bridge Mall in Ballarat as part of their “After Dark” series of events. Nosferatu was published globally by IFWG International on 16 September 2024, featuring four Ballarat contributors alongside well known writers from the US, UK and elsewhere in Australia.
In addition, we launched Cruel Nights, a vampire novella by Jason Nahrung published by Brain Jar Press. This is a grunge-soaked tale of love and vampirism in ’90s Seattle. Trent Jamieson (author of Day Boy and The Stone Road) says: “No-one writes vampires like Nahrung.”
Dillon Naylor was also there to sign copies of Batrisha and the Creepy Caretaker published by Comicoz to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the “Batrisha the Vampire Girl” comic strip that ran in K-Zone magazine between 2001-2017. It won a Comics Arts of Australia Award, 2023.
The photo in the Ballarat railway tunnel is courtesy of Tim Bottams (and the Ballarat Times).
I am proud to announce my novel DREAM WEAVER has been nominated for the 2024 Ditmar Award for Best Novel. A huge ‘thank you’ to everyone who voted for my book. Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees. I am delighted to have Dream Weaver included alongside such a talented list of shortlisted writers.
Steven Paulsen 