In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of Lovecraft's vision writing today would choose to unveil ever-evolving and terrible fears besetting those that live on the largest island on the planet, and force the protagonists of some startling new horror fiction tales in this book to face, indeed, not placidity, but their own black seas of infinity...and madness. Again, some of the greatest scribes of the weird and startling from the land down under bring you brand new stories in the Lovecraftian genre, taking you from the realms of contemporary Australian cities to the blood-soaked, post-colonial past (touching the powerful original cultures of the land), and even hinting at the disturbing future of Terra Australis. You will fear a sunburnt country. Tales of terror by Alan Baxter, David Conyers, Julie Ditrich, Jason Fischer, Steve Kilbey, Steven Paulsen, Steve Proposch, Alf Simpson, Cat Sparks, Maurice Xanthos. Introduction by Cat Rambo and Afterword by Jack Dann.
About the Author: Steve Proposch is the co-creator of mystical superhero The Borderlander. He has written non-fiction for publications such as Beat, Rebel Razor, and Time Out Melbourne. He lives in Australia. Christopher Sequeira is a writer and editor who has written scripts for brands such as Justice League Adventures for DC Entertainment and Iron Man and X-Men stories for Marvel Entertainment. He lives in Australia. Bryce Stevens is an editor and illustrator who has worked on horror magazines such as Bloodsongs, Severed Head, and Terror Australis. He lives in Australia. Peter Rawlik is a regular member of the Lovecraft Ezine Podcast and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of The Peaslee Papers, Reanimators, Reanimatrix, and The Weird Company. He lives in Florida. Steve Proposch is the co-creator of mystical superhero The Borderlander. He has written non-fiction for publications such as Beat, Rebel Razor, and Time Out Melbourne. He lives in Australia. Christopher Sequeira is a writer and editor who has written scripts for brands such as Justice League Adventures for DC Entertainment and Iron Man and X-Men stories for Marvel Entertainment. He lives in Australia. Bryce Stevens is an editor and illustrator who has worked on horror magazines such as Bloodsongs, Severed Head, and Terror Australis. He lives in Australia. Peter Rawlik is a regular member of the Lovecraft Ezine Podcast and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of The Peaslee Papers, Reanimators, Reanimatrix, and The Weird Company. He lives in Florida. Christopher Sequeira is a writer and editor who specialises in the mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy and super-hero genres. He's written scripts for flagship comic-book brands such as Justice League Adventures for DC Entertainment, and Iron Man and X-Men stories for Marvel Entertainment. His short fiction has been published in anthologies in Australia, the UK, Canada, the US and Europe, and he's created original characters, and edited and published comics and short story collections in Australia. He notably worked as a co-editor on all three book-sized volumes of the TERROR AUSTRALIS horror anthology with Leigh Blackmore and Bryce Stevens. His current projects include Australia's most popular superhero comic-book as he takes the wheel for THE PHANTOM on a few different storylines for Frew Publishing. Other forthcoming works by Sequeira include the The Exoneration of Doctor Fu Manchu graphic novel series in partnership with artist and long-time colleague W. Chew Chan, and Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook, a mass-market, hardcover collection of all-new Holmes stories, edited by Sequeira, to be published late 2017 by the Bonnier Group. Sequeira has formed the working group 'Horror Australis' with fellow editors and writers Bryce Stevens and Steve Proposch to edit and package entertaining and interesting speculative fiction collections internationally. Steve Proposch is one of Australia's most respected and accomplished editors of horror fiction, having steered the ship for the internationally distributed Bloodsongs magazine in the 90s, as well as having authored several outstanding pieces of genre fiction. He is also the co-creator, with Christopher Sequeira, of mystical superhero The Borderlander. Steve has written non-fiction for Time Out Melbourne, The Big Issue, Rebel Razor, Beat, and other magazines, guest-edited issues of Fashion Journal and Moonlight (Cinema) magazine, and was Managing Editor for the seminal street press magazine Large before starting Trouble (troublemag.com), in partnership with his wife Melissa in 2004. As a fresh and free, pocket-sized street press art magazine, Trouble began distribution in central Victoria but quickly grew to enjoy a National profile before moving operations entirely online in 2012. It's popularity has continued to grow and prosper in the digital world. Steve Proposch is t