We’re kicking off our author spotlight this year with an Aussie (because of course we are), so please welcome to the stage, the inestimable Alan Baxter! A stalwart in the Aussie horror-writing community, Alan is one of the most prolific writers I know – it’s insane. He also has dogs whom one day I will steal (yeah, you heard me, Baxter.)

So, before I divulge all my plans for dog-theft, I will hand over the stage to Al to let him tell you a little sumpin’-sumpin’ about himself. Baxter! Get up here!

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. 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, whisky lover, motorcyclist, metalhead and dog person. He writes his darkly strange tales deep in the valleys of southern Tasmania.

Baxter penned us quite the macabre story for SNAFU: Level Up – THE LONG SHOT: Desperate people will take any chance, but at what cost?

You can find Baxter at his website, on bluesky, and Insta.

Alan’s latest book The Rise, is out now – it’s book three in the Tales From The Gulp series.

<nudges you> Go on, get over there and have a read.