Kaaron Warren

About the Author

Kaaron Warren is an Australian author who was a finalist in the 2015 World Fantasy Awards in the short fiction category for `Death's Door Café', which appeared in Shadows & Tall Trees 2014. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the name: By Kaaron Warren

Image credit: Alex Swan

Series

Walking the Tree

Works by Kaaron Warren

Popular Recent

Slights (2009) 177 copies

Walking the Tree (2010) 95 copies

Mistification (2009) 48 copies

Into Bones like Oil (2019) 26 copies

Tide of Stone (2018) 21 copies

Through Splintered Walls (2012) 19 copies

Dead Sea Fruit: Collection (2010) 17 copies

The Grief Hole (2016) 16 copies

The Glass Woman: Collection (2007) 14 copies

The Gate Theory: Collection (2013) 13 copies

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren (2018) — Author — 9 copies

The Grinding House: Collection (2005) 9 copies

Ghost Jail {short fiction} (2008) 4 copies

Fresh Young Widow {short fiction} (2005) 3 copies

The Grinding House 3 copies

Vandal: Stories of Damage (2023) 3 copies

Bitters (2023) 3 copies

The Grinding House {short fiction} (2005) 3 copies

The Blue Stream {short fiction} (1993) 3 copies

His Lipstick Minx {short fiction} (2007) 2 copies

Calvaria Fell: Stories (2024) 2 copies

The Gibbet Bell {short fiction} (2006) 2 copies

Walking the Tree: Morace's Story (2022) 2 copies

Skin Holes {short fiction} (1995) 2 copies

Survival of the Last {short fiction} (2001) 2 copies

All You Can Do Is Breathe {short fiction} (2011) 2 copies

Working for the God of the Love of Money {short fiction} (2001) 2 copies

Tiger Kill {short fiction} (2000) 2 copies

The Underhistory 2 copies

The Speaker of Heaven {short fiction} 2 copies

The Left Behind {short fiction} (2000) 2 copies

The Nursery Corner {short fiction} (2014) 1 copy

Capturing Ghosts on the Page: Writing Horror & Dark Fiction (Writer Chaps) (2021) 1 copy

Dead Sea Fruit {short story} 1 copy

Al's Iso Bar {short fiction} (2004) 1 copy

Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired by Antique Tools (2021) 1 copy

The Underhistory 1 copy

Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren (2015) 1 copy

Polish {short fiction} (2007) 1 copy

The Unwanted Women of Surrey {short fiction} (2013) 1 copy

The Sameness of Birthdays {short fiction} (2000) 1 copy

Bone-Dog {short fiction} (2003) 1 copy

Coalescence {short fiction} (2007) 1 copy

The Softening {short fiction} (2006) 1 copy

The Hanging People {short fiction} (1996) 1 copy

Smoko {short fiction} (2005) 1 copy

A Positive {short fiction} (1998) 1 copy

The Missing Children {short fiction} (1999) 1 copy

The Wrong Seat {short fiction} (1994) 1 copy

The Smell of Mice {short fiction} (2005) 1 copy

Down To The Silver Spirits {short fiction} (2008) 1 copy

Salamander {short fiction} (1994) 1 copy

The Edge of a Thing {short fiction} (2009) 1 copy

The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall {short fiction} (2009) 1 copy

The Tell {short fiction} (2009) 1 copy

Loss {short fiction} (2010) 1 copy

Tontine Mary {short fiction} (2009) 1 copy

That Girl {short fiction} (2010) 1 copy

A Pot To Piss In {short fiction} (2011) 1 copy

The List of Definite Endings {short fiction} (2011) 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (2013) — Contributor — 376 copies

Teeth: Vampire Tales (2011) — Contributor — 302 copies

Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) — Contributor — 219 copies

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (2008) — Contributor — 217 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection (2007) — Contributor — 211 copies

Haunted Legends (2010) — Contributor — 186 copies

The Apex Book of World SF (2009) — Contributor — 149 copies

Fearful Symmetries (2014) — Contributor — 142 copies

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two (2010) — Contributor — 132 copies

Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe (2009) — Contributor — 124 copies

Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (2017) — Contributor — 118 copies

Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror (2016) — Contributor — 108 copies

Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (2013) — Contributor — 93 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 Edition (2012) — Contributor — 90 copies

Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets: An Anthology of Holmesian Tales Across Time and Space (2014) — Contributor — 88 copies

Cranky Ladies of History (2015) — Contributor — 84 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014 Edition (2014) — Contributor — 80 copies

Bewere the Night (2011) — Contributor — 79 copies

Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022) — Contributor — 78 copies

Evil Is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists (2017) — Contributor — 74 copies

Blood and Other Cravings (2011) — Contributor — 71 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015 Edition (2015) — Contributor — 68 copies

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten (2018) — Contributor — 65 copies

The Grimscribe's Puppets (2013) — Contributor — 63 copies

Body Shocks (2021) — Contributor — 62 copies

Shivers VII (2013) — Contributor — 58 copies

Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror (2023) — Contributor — 54 copies

The Humanity of Monsters (2015) — Contributor — 50 copies

Fearsome Magics (2014) — Contributor — 49 copies

The Lowest Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 46 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016 Edition (2016) — Author — 44 copies

Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology (2021) — Contributor — 41 copies

Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity (2016) — Contributor — 40 copies

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen (2022) — Contributor — 30 copies

Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein (2018) — Contributor — 30 copies

Street Magicks (2016) — Contributor — 29 copies

Dark Screams: Volume Seven (2017) — Contributor — 24 copies

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 2 (2006) — Contributor — 22 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018 Edition (2018) — Contributor — 21 copies

Mother of Invention (2018) — Contributor — 21 copies

Sprawl (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies

Dead Souls (Anthology 25-in-1) (2009) — Contributor — 19 copies

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 3 (2007) — Contributor — 19 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2019 Edition (2019) — Contributor — 18 copies

Encounters : an anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction (2004) — Contributor — 18 copies

Voices from the Past (2011) — Contributor — 18 copies

2012 (2008) — Contributor — 18 copies

Agog! Terrific Tales (2003) — Contributor — 17 copies

Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021) — Contributor — 16 copies

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 (2012) — Contributor — 16 copies

Giving the Devil His Due: Special Edition (2021) — Contributor — 15 copies

Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1 (2017) — Contributor — 15 copies

Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears (2010) — Contributor — 15 copies

New Ceres nights (2009) — Contributor — 14 copies

Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 5 (2010) — Contributor — 14 copies

Worlds next door (2010) — Contributor — 13 copies

Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (2021) — Contributor — 13 copies

The Alsiso Project (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies

The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison (2019) — Contributor — 12 copies

Exotic Gothic 4 (2012) — Contributor — 12 copies

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013 (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies

Dead Red Heart (2011) — Contributor — 11 copies

Ishtar (2011) — Contributor — 11 copies

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies

Baggage (2010) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 (2011) — Contributor — 10 copies

The workers' paradise (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies

Never Again: Weird Fiction Against Racism and Fascism (2010) — Contributor — 9 copies

Borderlands 08 (2006) — Contributor — 9 copies

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 (2017) — Contributor — 9 copies

Zombies vs Robots: Women on War! (2012) — Contributor — 8 copies

A Miscellany of Death & Folly (2019) — Contributor — 8 copies

Elsewhere : an anthology of incredible places (2003) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Outcast : An Anthology of Strangers and Exiles (2006) — Contributor — 8 copies

Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke (2012) — Contributor — 7 copies

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (2018) — Introduction — 7 copies

Exotic Gothic 3 Strange Visitations (2009) — Contributor — 6 copies

In Your Face (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies

Nightmare Magazine, May 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 5 copies

Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories (2018) — Contributor — 4 copies

Shrieks: A horror anthology (1993) — Contributor — 4 copies

Cemetery Dance Issue 69 (2013) — Contributor — 4 copies

Twisted Histories (2013) — Contributor — 4 copies

Damnation Games (2022) — Contributor — 3 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume Two (2023) — Contributor — 3 copies

Nightmare Magazine, February 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 2 copies

Cthulhu: Deep Down Under (2015) — Contributor — 2 copies

Focus 2014 : highlights of Australian short fiction (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy

Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth And Babies (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy

Tagged

anthology (677) Australian (58) Australian author (44) Australian authors (31) australian sf (44) calibre (18) cats (20) collection (37) ebook (165) fantasy (497) fiction (456) ghosts (22) goodreads import (17) grinding house (19) historical fantasy (17) horror (547) kaaron warren collection (19) Kindle (50) large paperback (24) library (18) literature (35) not free sf reader (26) own (21) paperback (19) read (36) science fiction (161) sf (115) sff (27) shelved under 'small press' (18) short fiction (44) short stories (549) signed (35) speculative fiction (53) steampunk (34) to-read (670) unread (52) unread (fred) (20) urban fantasy (45) vampires (45) wishlist (28)

Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Warren, Kaaron
Legal name: Warren, Kaaron
Birthdate: 1965
Gender: female
Nationality: Australia
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Places of residence: Suva, Fiji
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupations: editor's assistant
check out chick
audio visual manager
Organizations: Australian Horror Writer's Association
Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild
Awards and honors: Aurealis Award (horror short story, "A Positive" (short story))
Ditmar Award (Best Novella or Novelette, 2006, for "The Grinding House")
Ditmar Award (short story, "Fresh Young Widow")
ACT Writers' and Publishers' Fiction Award ('The Grinding House' 2006)
Agent: Sally Harding (Cooke Agency)
Short biography: Kaaron Warren’s award-winning short fiction has appeared in “Year’s Best Horror and Fantasy”, ‘Fantasy Magazine’, “Paper Cities” and many other places in Australia, Europe and the US. She is an Australian currently based in Fiji. She is married with two children and they have a cat called "Fat Tuesday".

Her short story “A Positive” has been made into a short film called “Patience”, close to completion, and two of her stories were be part of a series of short, disturbing plays in February next year.

She is currently working on a novella about the goddess Ishtar, and a novel about the washerwoman in history. She has stories in Ellen Datlow’s Poe anthology and also her Haunted Legends anthology.

Her first novel, Slights, will be published by Angry Robot Books, followed by two more, “Mistification” and “Walking the Tree”.

Members

Reviews

Mistification by Kaaron Warren

F/SF

Flagged

beskamiltar | 2 other reviews | Apr 10, 2024 |

Bitters by Kaaron Warren

Interesting world-building and culture; I'd be interested in exploring more of it. The protagonist's love and support for his wife with severe depression was a bit of comfort in a bleak and strange setting.

Towards the end of the story, it felt more like a series of vignettes due to the overuse of section dividers—sometimes between each paragraph. Writing was alright. Could use another pass from a proofreader.

½

Flagged

Ashles | Aug 25, 2023 |

Into Bones like Oil by Kaaron Warren

Just a small taste of an extremely talented and renowned author. The entire tale is heavy with dread and death, but its characters are very much alive. It’s tragic and creepy, so incredibly written that I didn’t want to be in that headspace but was compelled to finish. I will be reading more of her stuff in the near future.

Flagged

LiteraryGadd | 3 other reviews | Jan 16, 2023 |

Morace's Story by Kaaron Warren

Somewhat interesting as an alternative viewpoint on Warren's *Walking the Tree*, but I found that it didn't seem to slot in well, nor did it work on its own.

Flagged

fred_mouse | Jan 14, 2023 |

See More Reviews