Alan Baxter

Hi! I'm Alan, a horror writer from Tasmania. Talking Scared called me "The Lord of Weird Australia" and This is Horror called me "Australia's master of literary darkness." The graphic below shows all my stuff and how it interacts. I hope you'll give something there a go. More here: alanbaxter.com.au

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

Six inches never feels like quite enough, but like twelve inches is too much, it fills you up to the point of pain. I wish subway did a sandwich halfway between the two.

Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Yet another reason I’m digging Gail Simone and Luciano Vecchio’s Uncanny X-Men run:

Saw someone say recently, "Gen X, do you still listen to new music or are you stuck with stuff from last century?" First of all, how dare you. Second of all, half the legends from the 80s and 90s are still making good music. Third, have you never heard of Ren?

I fucking hate transphobes.

Congratulation to all of the finalists and winners of the World Fantasy Awards! locusmag.com/2026/10...

Have you read the Tales From The Gulp yet? No? Why, are you too scared? I dare ya! #WelcomeToTheGulp #HappyHalloween

HOLY MOLY I'm in the Observer!!!!!!!!!!

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Have you read the Tales From The Gulp yet? No? Why, are you too scared? I dare ya! #WelcomeToTheGulp #HappyHalloween

Life is like a box of chocolates - a lot more expensive now than it used to be.

They're almost here... soon.

"I don't understand queer people!" "I don't understand trans people!" You know what, Chad? There's a metric fuckton of stuff you don't understand and it's still real. It's also nothing to do with you. How about you focus on your own shit and leave people alone.

I woke to the news that Ryu Murakami passed away. I’ve not been hit so hard with the news of a writer’s passing since Jack Ketchum. There are no words. The best words we have are the gifts Murakami left us with in the form of his stories. www.thisishorror.co.uk/reading-and-...

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

Please read and share here is a link to the "new profile" www.instagram.com/gnofhorror/

In the mail! Thank you for posting it @kaaron_warren 💚 and thank you to the judges and organisers of the @australasianhorrorwriters 💐💐

You know what doesn't get enough love? Horror short stories. From today through Halloween, I'll update this thread with Horror short story recommendations. Stuff you can read in a sitting while feeling like the shadows are watching.

The opportunities for short fiction publishing right now are truly dire...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Good morning! We're suing Meta for stealing our shit 😎 let's goooo

CALL IN THE ORCA!

Knowing queer people exist won't turn your kid queer. Knowing trans people exist won't turn your kid trans. But if your queer or trans kid gets to see and learn about other queer and trans people in the world, it may very well keep them alive.

I walked past some teenagers in town today as one of them was saying, "No way! LMAO!" Except he actually said that, like some rangy, spotty French cat: le mao! He wasn't even laughing. Just said le mao like it's a regular word. Unbelievable scenes.

Post the: Last movie you saw 🎬 Last game you played 🎮 Last show you watched 🖥 Last song you listened to 🎵

This is the way. I'm always happy to be tagged (unless it's a negative review, that's just a dick move) but reviews are for readers. I don't need to see them and I am ETERNALLY grateful to everyone who boosts the signal about books. It's lifeblood to us.

🏆🎃THE ATTIC TRAGEDY by J. Ashley-Smith: Forget jump scares. This Shirley Jackson Award-Winning novella is pure, slow-burning gothic dread. The perfect atmospheric read for a dark Halloween night. #boo zurl.co/kRgTz #Horror #GothicHorror #Ghosts #awardwinner @spooktapes.bsky.social

‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

I love how this quote has lived on so meaningfully.

It's award season again so I'd like to remind people that THE RISE came out in February this year and is eligible, as are all 5 original novellas in it. If you think it worthy of your vote or recommendation, I would be enormously grateful.

Dont give a f*ck about this fake Buck Rogers shit

Fossill fuel company finds internal combustion engines by far the best!

After the Fire, a New Anthology Inspired by Ray Bradbury, Opens Call for Submissions file770.com/after-the-fi...

Signed a contract today so that The Best of Jeffrey Ford will soon be available in trade paperback from PS.

In this episode Dorian Ravenscroft talks to me about their polar debut, THE WHITE NORTH HAS THY BONES. It’s fantastic! The arctic horror tradition, their books relationship with The Terror, why the icy north is such fertile ground for Queer stories, and my strategy to survive starvation on the ice.

Halo: Parasite's Wake is out today!!!

Vintage Books just dropped the cover for next summer’s visit to the The Overlook Hotel, edited by the always amazing @jamieflanagan.com, who was kind enough to let me occupy one of @stephenking.bsky.social’s rooms despite the place already being packed to the rafters with insane talent.