Role in IFWG: Author
BIO: LEIGH BLACKMORE, born in Sydney in 1959, is a writer, researcher and editor who has been variously called ‘Australia’s leading horror expert’ (Hodder press release), ‘the dark doyen of Australian horror (author Terry Dowling), ‘the ghoulish guru of Australian horror’ (Julia Lester, 3RRR Adelaide) and ‘Mr Horror’ (‘The Times’, ATN Television).
Blackmore published and edited (with B. J. Stevens and Christopher G. C. Sequeira) Terror Australis: The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine (1988-92). His anthology Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), Australia’s first mass-market horror anthology, was praised by Robert Bloch (author of Psycho) as “a landmark venture…a monument to the advancement of the genre.”
Leigh is a regular essayist and reviewer on the horror genre for such journals as Dead Reckonings and Spectral Realms. His work has thrice been nominated for the Aurealis Award (for both fiction and criticism).
He recently completed his debut novel, The Eighth Trigram. His hobbies include films, music (listening and playing) and eternally rearranging the books in his library of 10,000-plus volumes. He lives with his family and black cat, Katie, in the Illawarra, NSW.
Collections
Azathoth and Other Horrors:The Collected Nightmare Lyrics by Edward Pickman Derby
(Lovecraftian Poetry)
Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic & Cthulhuesque
(Lovecraftian Fiction)
IFWG Publishing 