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