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Leigh Blackmore

Author of Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror

45+ Works 110 Members 2 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Includes the names: Frater Lvxnox, Leigh Blackmore

Image credit: Leigh Blackmore, Wollongong NSW, 2025

Works by Leigh Blackmore

Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror (1993) — Editor; Contributor — 33 copies, 1 review
Spores from Sharnoth and Other Madnesses (2008) 15 copies
Brian Lumley: A New Bibliography (1987) 6 copies
Terror Australis 1, No 1 (Autumn 1988) (1988) 3 copies
Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic and Cthulhuesque (2024) 3 copies
Azathoth and Other Horrors: The Collected Nightmare Lyrics by Edward Pickman Derby (2023) 3 copies, 1 review
Sharnoth's Spores and Other Seeds 2 copies
Harlan Ellison / Terry Dowling / Jack Dann: A Bibliographic Checklist 2 copies
HERMETIC HORRORS: WEIRD FICTION WRITERS & THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN (2006) 2 copies
IAO: A Magical Formula of the Highest (2012) 2 copies
Terror Australis [magazine] No 3 Jack the Ripper Special Summer 1992 2 copies
Terror Australis : issue 2 2 copies
Horrors of Sherlock Holmes : being three previously unpublished cases from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (2017) 2 copies
Cemetery Rose 2 copies
Lines for Heather 1 copy
Live at Villawood 1982 by Koga Ninja [sound recording] 1 copy
Horus in the Succession of the Aeons 1 copy
Maat-Heru: The Symbolism of the Eyes of Horus 1 copy
Midnight Echo : issue 5 1 copy
Mantichore 64 1 copy
Dr. Nadurnian's Golem 1 copy
Uncharted 1 copy
Leigh Blackmore guests on Pilots of the Unknown radio show (Melbourne, 18April 1990) 1 copy
Leigh Blackmore interviews Colin Wilson 15 Sept 1993 1 copy
And Then I Woke Up...A Zine About Dreams 1 copy
The Hourglass 1 copy
Deep in the Reality Crisis: Individuation, 'Mytho-Realism' and Surrealistic Traces in Terrry Dowling's Tom Rynosseros Cycle 1 copy
Ghosts in the House of Life: A Novella 1 copy
Live at the Rehearsal Room Redfern 1983 by Worm Technology [sound recording] 1 copy
Live at Hurstville 1981 by Worm Technology [sound recording] 1 copy
Terry Dowling: Virtuoso of the Fantastic 1 copy
In Your Loungeroom by Worm Technology [sound recording] 1 copy
Cathuria: The Newsletter of the Arcane Sciences Society & the Horror-Fantasy Society Vol 1, No 3 (May-Jun 1975) 1 copy
Cathuria: The Newsletter of the Arcane Sciences Society & the Horror-Fantasy Society, Vol 1, No 2 (Mar-Apr 1975) 1 copy
Cathuria: The Newsletter of the Arcane Sciences Society & the Horror-Fantasy Society, Vol 1, No 1 (Jan-Feb 1975) 1 copy
Index to 'Writers of Today' in Jack Sullivan's 'The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural' 1 copy
From Babel to Babalon: The Language of the Sappho-Calypso Angel in Aleister Crowley's The Vision and the Voice (2012) 1 copy
By Their Fruits 1 copy
The Last Town 1 copy
Exalted are the Forces of Darkness (in Gaslight Grotesque - CAMPBELL) 1 copy
The Infestation 1 copy
Austin Osman Spare: Miscellanea 1 copy
The Sacrifice 1 copy
The Horror in the Manuscript 1 copy
De Natura LVX/NOX: On the Nature of My Magical Motto 1 copy
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Associated Works

Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2009) — Contributor — 64 copies
Agog! Fantastic Fiction (2002) — Contributor — 26 copies
Agog! Terrific Tales (2003) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch (2009) — Contributor — 12 copies
21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 (2010) — Contributor — 10 copies

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Canonical name
Blackmore, Leigh
Legal name
Blackmore, Leigh David
Other names
Blackmore, L.D.
Olbeg el Khamir
LVX/NOX, Frater
Fruitbat, Frater
HekAL, Frater
Fruitbat, Frater
Birthdate
1959-06-30
Gender
male
Education
University of Sydney (major in Semitic Studies)
Macquarie University (major in Humanities)
University of Wollongong (Bachelor of Creative Arts (Writing)(Honours) Two-part thesis analysed Terry Dowling's Tom Rynosseros story-cycle, and contributed an original ficto-critical novella on the relationship between Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Siddall.)
Occupations
bookseller
editor
manuscript assessor
occult group facilitator
lecturer
critic and reviewer (show all 9)
musician (bass, drums, keyboards) and songwriter (bass ∙ drums ∙ keyboards)
horror fiction writer
poet
Organizations
Sydney Passengers (Sherlock Holmes Society) [Assistant Editor: Passengers Log journal]
Ordo Templi Orientis
Temple ov Psychick Youth
Fraternitatis A.'.A.'.
Sword and Sorcery and Weird Fiction Terminus amateur press association (SSWFT apa) (Official Editor, 2009 - )
Australasian Horror Writers Association (President, 2011) (show all 11)
Horror Writers Association
Praed Street Irregulars (Invested PSI Mar 2026)
Esoteric Order of Dagon amateur press association
Friends of Arthur Machen
August Derleth Society (Board member, 2025 - )
Awards and honors
Nominated several times for Ditmar Award for fiction, and William Atheling Award for Criticism
Relationships
Vowles, Glayne Louise (first wife; divorced; deceased 2006)
Curtis, Margaret (Margi) (2004-present)
Short biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Bl...
Nationality
Australia
Birthplace
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Places of residence
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Associated Place (for map)
New South Wales, Australia

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12 reviews
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This review was written by the author.
Azathoth and Other Horrors: The Collected Nightmare Lyrics by Edward Pickman Derby by Leigh Blackmore
I'm a huge fan of Australian Leigh Blackmore's Lovecraftian poetry, and this latest collection - which purports to be a 'lost' text by an early 20th Century poet - is an excellent addition to the pantheon of supernatural poetry. Blackmore's verse is dark and lyrical and evokes an unsettling sense of the weird and the wrong. Any fan of the Cthulhu Mythos should add this publication to their collection immediately. - Chuck McKenzie, Goodreads.com
May 9, 2025
Corinne20201,191 reviews
Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror by Leigh Blackmore
I bought it to read the Leanne Frahm story but it was only okay.

~ Catalyst by Leanne Frahm 3* @
~ The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap by Terry Dowling 2*
~ Heir of the Wolf by Stephen Dedman 3.5* @
~ Openings by Robert Hood 2*
~ In the Light of the Lamp by Steven Paulsen 3.5* @
~ Dear Reader by Dirk Strasser 1*
~ Anzac Day by Cherry Wilder 2.5*
~ Twist of the Knife by Sean Williams 1.5*

@ would read more by these authors
Aug 22, 2021
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Members
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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Favorited
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