Kaaron Warren

• Nov-2007
• / Fantasy
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Subtle depictions of future worlds, of stark contemporary settings and alternate realities are some of the wonders of Warren's imagination. From science fiction to fantasy and eerie, soul-shaking horror. Warren's words will reverberate in all of us. ...

• May-2010
• / Horror
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STEVIE IS A KILLER. But she brings her victims back to life to demand of them: "WHAT DO YOU SEE?" Now she's about to find out for herself... After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself i...

• Jul-2010
• / Fantasy
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Botanica is an island, but almost all of the island is taken up by the Tree. Little knowing how they came to be here, small communities live around the coast line. The Tree provides them shelter, kindling, medicine - and a place of legends, for t...

• Sep-2010
• / Fantasy
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• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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Each story in the Scenes from the Second Storey anthology was inspired by a track from The God Machine's album. Quirky, dark, insightful and sometimes downright disturbing, these tales reflect the emotions and images our authors experienced when they...

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Marvo can do magic. Real magic. He is among the last of his kind, watching over humanity, keeping it safely blanketed by illusions. But as he learns more about his fellow man, the temptation to let the mists drop is growing ever stronger......

• Oct-2012
• / Horror
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From Bram Stoker Award nominated author Kaaron Warren, comes Book 6 in the Twelve Planets collection series. Country road, city street, mountain, creek. These are stories inspired by the beauty, the danger, the cruelty, emptiness,...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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A horror story set in a futuristic society where people face an epidemic that’s not only infecting its food supply, but every living being in it, too. And no matter how hard you try, you can’t get away from it. Of course. the Grinding House will ...

• Nov-2013
• / Horror
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What if Pandora's Box was not really a box at all, but a doorway? What if we were the 'evil' of mythology, and it was designed to keep us in, rather than something out...What if someone had found the Fountain of Youth or the secret of Immortality? Bu...

• Dec-2013
• / Horror
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"We're all in pain. We try to keep the gates closed by falling in love, travelling, avoiding responsibility, getting drunk, taking drugs...anything to lose ourselves. But the dull ache remains in each of us. These stories are about the gates opening....

• Jul-2016
• / Horror
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A small car is discovered at a local bazaar in Refuge. It's recognised as a child's toy from a long time ago. It shouldn't exist. The mystery takes the narrator on a quest for the truth. But does she really want to know?Bram Stoker, Twice-World Fanta...

• Aug-2016
• / Horror
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Winner, Best Horror Novel, 2016 Aurealis AwardsWinner, Best Novel, 2016 Shadow AwardsWinner, Best Novel, 2016 Ditmar Awards There are many grief holes. There's the grief hole you fall into when a loved one dies. There's another grief hole in all of u...

• Apr-2018
• / Dark Fantasy
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The Time-Ball Tower of Tempuston houses the worst criminals in history. Given the option of the death penalty or eternal life, they chose eternal life.They have a long time to regret that choice....

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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Australian author Kaaron Warren is widely recognized as one of the leading writers today of speculative and dark short fiction. She’s published four novels, multiple novellas, and well over one hundred heart-rending tales of horror, science fiction...

• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction
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Every nation of the globe has unique tales to tell, whispers that settle in through the land, creatures or superstitions that enliven the night, but rarely do readers get to experience such a diversity of these voices in one place as in A World of Ho...

• Nov-2018
• / Horror
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New Zealand -- Aotearoa -- Land of the Long White Cloud: the island remnants of the sunken continent of Zealandia. With its boiling geysers, active volcanoes, earthquakes, deep water fjords and lush forests of fern, these are realms once home to forg...

• Nov-2019
• / Dark Fantasy
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"A tale of creeping dread … Recommended." -- Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater and The Murders of Molly Southbourne "Dark, disturbing, visceral" (5 stars) -- NB Magazine In this gothic-styled ghost story that simmers with strange, Warre...

• Dec-2020
• / Horror
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Three rich punks are out filming a prank when they come across a video cassette stuck in the return slot at the new hipster video rental store. It's all laughs until they make use of a VCR and the movie jars them deep as things start to take on a per...

• Apr-2021
• / General Fiction
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Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for...

• Aug-2022
• / Fantasy
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Botanica is the island, but all of Botanica is taken up by the Tree. When Morace and other students set out to walk around the Tree, a five year journey, he has no idea what lies ahead. Little does he know the risks his teacher, Lillah, will have to ...

• Feb-2023
• / Horror
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Three unflinching novellas of cursed objects, folk horror, and dark family secrets...The Deathplace Set by Kaaron Warren: Gloria inherits a set of cigarette cards, 24 beautifully illustrated, historically accurate cards depicting death scenes. Once ...

• Jun-2023
• / Horror
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The giant metal man has stood for hundreds of years, head tilted back, mouth open. All the dead of the town are disposed of this way, carried up the long, staircase that winds around him and tipped in. At his toe emerges the Bitters, the lifeblood of...

• Apr-2024
• / Thriller
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'Full of suspense and surprises' - GUARDIAN'Wholly unique and deeply compelling' - ESQUIRE'A heartfelt and chilling gothic tragedy' - CHRIS WHITAKERPeople come to visit my home and I love to show them around. It's not the original house of course. Th...

• May-2024
• / Science Fiction
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Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. It features previously published stories from both authors, along with a new novella by Kaaron Warren and four new stories b...