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Kyla Lee Ward

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Kyla Lee Ward is a Sydney-based creative who works in many modes, that have garnered her Australian Shadows and Aurealis awards. She has placed in the Rhyslings and received multiple Stoker and Ditmar nominations. Reviewers have accused her of being “gothic and esoteric”, “weird and exhilarating” and of “giving me a nightmare.” This Attraction Now Open Till Late is her first collection of dark and fantastic stories after two poetry collections, The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities and The Land of Bad Dreams.

Her work on RPGs including Demon: the Fallen saw her appear as a guest at the inaugural Gencon Australia. Her short film, 'Bad Reception', screened at the Third International Vampire Film Festival and she is a founding member of Dea
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My essay in JOURN-E 3.1, "Long Be-nightma'rd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird fiction" has won the Australasian Shadows Award for Nonfiction. This is my second such award, the previous being for my essay on the danse macabre in The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities, back in 2019. I find the history of horror and its continuing motifs to be fascinating, and the varied ways that dreams and dreamin Read more of this blog post »
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