The Widow wishes you a happy Halloween! #RocksGhostTours #TheWomanInBlack #Gothic #VictorianCostume #authorphoto #AustralianHalloween #KylaLeeWard #ElegantHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The Widow wishes you a happy Halloween! #RocksGhostTours #TheWomanInBlack #Gothic #VictorianCostume #authorphoto #AustralianHalloween #KylaLeeWard #ElegantHalloween
My essay in JOURN-E 3.1, "Long Be-nightmar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird Fiction" has won the Australasian Shadow Award for Nonfiction! #AHWA #AustralasianShadowAwards #IWonThis #horrornonfiction #horroressay #dreams #nightmares #HWA #whatdreamsmaycome #happyauthor
October 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My essay in JOURN-E 3.1, "Long Be-nightmar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird Fiction" has won the Australasian Shadow Award for Nonfiction! #AHWA #AustralasianShadowAwards #IWonThis #horrornonfiction #horroressay #dreams #nightmares #HWA #whatdreamsmaycome #happyauthor
Miss Nikki believes I need to reconsider this chapter. What tail am I really telling? #KylaLeeWard #author #hwa #horrorwriting #mycat #blackcats #catsofBluesky
August 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Miss Nikki believes I need to reconsider this chapter. What tail am I really telling? #KylaLeeWard #author #hwa #horrorwriting #mycat #blackcats #catsofBluesky
Your Guide awaits! *The Shark Arm Case* - immersive theatre at Sydney's Justice and Police Museum, opens 14th August 2025. Tickets available now! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...?
#DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #SharkArmCase
#DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #SharkArmCase
July 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Your Guide awaits! *The Shark Arm Case* - immersive theatre at Sydney's Justice and Police Museum, opens 14th August 2025. Tickets available now! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...?
#DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #SharkArmCase
#DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #SharkArmCase
Ashy-Slashy approves!
July 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Ashy-Slashy approves!
It's 1935 at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum, and bookings are open for *The Shark Arm Case*, August 14 - 30.
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...? #DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #jumptheshark
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...? #DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #jumptheshark
July 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It's 1935 at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum, and bookings are open for *The Shark Arm Case*, August 14 - 30.
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...? #DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #jumptheshark
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...? #DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #jumptheshark
And the winners of this year's Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology are Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska for *Discontinue if Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point*. Ladies, it is a honour to have contributed. #StokerAwards #author #hwa #horrorwriting #newhorror
June 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
And the winners of this year's Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology are Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska for *Discontinue if Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point*. Ladies, it is a honour to have contributed. #StokerAwards #author #hwa #horrorwriting #newhorror
Another lovely review of *This Attraction Now Open Till Late*! “Ward weaves a witchery of words in every tale, producing ghosts and monsters of various kinds in a variety of voices… a darkly-enjoyable collection.” – Leigh Blackmore #author #hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #shortstories
June 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Another lovely review of *This Attraction Now Open Till Late*! “Ward weaves a witchery of words in every tale, producing ghosts and monsters of various kinds in a variety of voices… a darkly-enjoyable collection.” – Leigh Blackmore #author #hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #shortstories
Books come in boxes. So do other things. #KylaLeeWard #author #hwa #horrorwriting #mycat #blackcats #catsofBluesky
May 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Books come in boxes. So do other things. #KylaLeeWard #author #hwa #horrorwriting #mycat #blackcats #catsofBluesky
Astonishingly, "Maleficium" is a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards for best long fiction, along with my essay "Long Be-nightmar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird fiction" for Non-fiction and Criticism. #horror #author #horrorwriting #AustralianShadowsAwards #AHWA
April 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Astonishingly, "Maleficium" is a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards for best long fiction, along with my essay "Long Be-nightmar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird fiction" for Non-fiction and Criticism. #horror #author #horrorwriting #AustralianShadowsAwards #AHWA
With the Australian election coming up, here's an extract from my entirely epic "Macabre Modern". #KylaLeeWard #poetry #darkart #darkpoetry #horrorwriting #author #hwa #gothic #skullskullskull
April 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
With the Australian election coming up, here's an extract from my entirely epic "Macabre Modern". #KylaLeeWard #poetry #darkart #darkpoetry #horrorwriting #author #hwa #gothic #skullskullskull
A lovely review of my collection! "I think my favourite story is "The Oldest Coffee House in Prague", with all that loving detail of the city. Or is it the title story and its behind-the-scenes look at a haunted house? Be sure to grab this if you enjoy a dark sense of humour." Thank you Kate Orman!
March 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A lovely review of my collection! "I think my favourite story is "The Oldest Coffee House in Prague", with all that loving detail of the city. Or is it the title story and its behind-the-scenes look at a haunted house? Be sure to grab this if you enjoy a dark sense of humour." Thank you Kate Orman!
Stunned to learn that *Discontinue if Death Ensues* has made the Stoker Awards final ballot. #DiscontinueifDeathEnsues #FlameTreePress #horror #horrorwriting #authorpicture #newhorror #BramStokerAwards #hwa #ahwa #womanauthor #hrroranthology #LeeMurray #CarolGyzander #CindyO'Quinn #AnnaTaborska
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Stunned to learn that *Discontinue if Death Ensues* has made the Stoker Awards final ballot. #DiscontinueifDeathEnsues #FlameTreePress #horror #horrorwriting #authorpicture #newhorror #BramStokerAwards #hwa #ahwa #womanauthor #hrroranthology #LeeMurray #CarolGyzander #CindyO'Quinn #AnnaTaborska
Congratulations to everyone on the Stoker preliminary ballot, but especially Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, who edited this thing! #StokerAwards #DiscontinueIfDeathEnsues #FlameTreePress #newhorror #horrorwriting #beautifulbooks
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Congratulations to everyone on the Stoker preliminary ballot, but especially Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, who edited this thing! #StokerAwards #DiscontinueIfDeathEnsues #FlameTreePress #newhorror #horrorwriting #beautifulbooks
Happy first Book Birthday to my decadent novella! #author
#hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #darkart #IndependentLegionsPublishing #KylaLeeWard
#AlessandroAmoruso #nightmare #perchancetodream #novella
#hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #darkart #IndependentLegionsPublishing #KylaLeeWard
#AlessandroAmoruso #nightmare #perchancetodream #novella
December 27, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Happy first Book Birthday to my decadent novella! #author
#hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #darkart #IndependentLegionsPublishing #KylaLeeWard
#AlessandroAmoruso #nightmare #perchancetodream #novella
#hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #darkart #IndependentLegionsPublishing #KylaLeeWard
#AlessandroAmoruso #nightmare #perchancetodream #novella
And a new short story to round out the year, "The Battlements of Twilight" in *Where the Silent Ones Watch*, ed. James Chambers, Hippocampus Press. #KylaLeeWard #WilliamHopeHodgson #author #hwa #horrorwriting #darkfantasy #anthology #shortfiction #weird
December 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
And a new short story to round out the year, "The Battlements of Twilight" in *Where the Silent Ones Watch*, ed. James Chambers, Hippocampus Press. #KylaLeeWard #WilliamHopeHodgson #author #hwa #horrorwriting #darkfantasy #anthology #shortfiction #weird
*Those That Pursue Us Yet* has made the Aurealis Magazine Reviewer Picks of 2024.
"Those That Pursue Us Yet is a stunning psychological horror that unravels in a suspenseful dreamscape... A hooking read." #author #hwa #horrorwriting #darkfantasy #ThoseThatPursueUsYet #IndependentLegionsPublishing
"Those That Pursue Us Yet is a stunning psychological horror that unravels in a suspenseful dreamscape... A hooking read." #author #hwa #horrorwriting #darkfantasy #ThoseThatPursueUsYet #IndependentLegionsPublishing
November 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
*Those That Pursue Us Yet* has made the Aurealis Magazine Reviewer Picks of 2024.
"Those That Pursue Us Yet is a stunning psychological horror that unravels in a suspenseful dreamscape... A hooking read." #author #hwa #horrorwriting #darkfantasy #ThoseThatPursueUsYet #IndependentLegionsPublishing
"Those That Pursue Us Yet is a stunning psychological horror that unravels in a suspenseful dreamscape... A hooking read." #author #hwa #horrorwriting #darkfantasy #ThoseThatPursueUsYet #IndependentLegionsPublishing
Pleasant Dreams! #author #hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #darkart #ThoseThatPursueUsYet #IndependentLegionsPublishing #nightmare #teddybear #HappyHalloween #horrorbooks
October 26, 2024 at 12:14 AM
And here it is, the highly anticipated anthology from Wordscraft Press, *Shunned Houses - weird tales, poems and essays*. Carefully curated by Katharine Kerestman and S. T. Joshi, this volume includes my new poem "Soul House". #author #hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkpoetry #KylaLeeWard #anthology
October 3, 2024 at 4:53 AM
And here it is, the highly anticipated anthology from Wordscraft Press, *Shunned Houses - weird tales, poems and essays*. Carefully curated by Katharine Kerestman and S. T. Joshi, this volume includes my new poem "Soul House". #author #hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkpoetry #KylaLeeWard #anthology
The changes are coming...
*Discontinue If Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point* (ed. Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, Flame Tree Publishing), is now available for pre-order through all the usual outlets. Includes my novelette "Maleficium" and the poem "Circling Hecate".
*Discontinue If Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point* (ed. Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, Flame Tree Publishing), is now available for pre-order through all the usual outlets. Includes my novelette "Maleficium" and the poem "Circling Hecate".
September 4, 2024 at 12:02 AM
The changes are coming...
*Discontinue If Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point* (ed. Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, Flame Tree Publishing), is now available for pre-order through all the usual outlets. Includes my novelette "Maleficium" and the poem "Circling Hecate".
*Discontinue If Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point* (ed. Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, Flame Tree Publishing), is now available for pre-order through all the usual outlets. Includes my novelette "Maleficium" and the poem "Circling Hecate".
On August 31 (in Sydney), Elaine Paige interviewed myself and my fellow Sisters of Foreboding about our forthcoming anthology, *Discontinue if Death Ensues*. The recording is now available on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaPH...
September 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
On August 31 (in Sydney), Elaine Paige interviewed myself and my fellow Sisters of Foreboding about our forthcoming anthology, *Discontinue if Death Ensues*. The recording is now available on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaPH...
Next Friday evening (for US folks - it's 7.00 am Saturday in Sydney), the Godmother of Horror is interviewing me and my fellow Sisters of Foreboding about our upcoming anthology!
#KylaLeeWard #ElainePascale #author #hwa #horrorwriting #horrorauthor #womeninhorror #newhorror #authorinterview
#KylaLeeWard #ElainePascale #author #hwa #horrorwriting #horrorauthor #womeninhorror #newhorror #authorinterview
August 26, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Next Friday evening (for US folks - it's 7.00 am Saturday in Sydney), the Godmother of Horror is interviewing me and my fellow Sisters of Foreboding about our upcoming anthology!
#KylaLeeWard #ElainePascale #author #hwa #horrorwriting #horrorauthor #womeninhorror #newhorror #authorinterview
#KylaLeeWard #ElainePascale #author #hwa #horrorwriting #horrorauthor #womeninhorror #newhorror #authorinterview
Another day, another audition. #KylaLeeWard #actor #getmedieval #author #medievalreenactment #costuming #darkfantasy
August 12, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Another day, another audition. #KylaLeeWard #actor #getmedieval #author #medievalreenactment #costuming #darkfantasy
July 31, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Time for a little stroll down memory lane. My 2022 collection from Independent Legions Publishing. Thirteen tales, thirteen excursions into the gothic and macabre.
July 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Time for a little stroll down memory lane. My 2022 collection from Independent Legions Publishing. Thirteen tales, thirteen excursions into the gothic and macabre.