By Alan Baxter

It has long been recognised that the USA is the main focus of attention when it comes to horror fiction. If that hasn’t been noticed by people in North America, it most certainly has by everyone outside the country. But there is a growing interest in horror set beyond America’s shores, and for stories written by authors from other countries and other cultures. One of my most successful books is The Gulp, an unashamedly Australian collection of horror stories set very much in rural New South Wales, Australia. We’ve seen a surge of successful horror from European writers like Alessandro Manzetti, from British writers like Gemma Amor and Ross Jeffery, from New Zealanders like Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts, Australians like Kaaron Warren and Aaron Dries, Nigerians like Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala. This list goes on and on. These people and so many more are writing world-class horror that is being recognised internationally both in sales attention and award shortlistings. ...More...