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Kaaron Warren

Australia

Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.

She is the author of the short story collection The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. Her short stories have won both the Ditmar and Aurealis Award.

Awards: Jackson (2013) see all

Genres: Horror, Urban Fantasy

New and upcoming books

October 2025

Spirit Level: Strange Tools and Story

Series

Walking the Tree
Walking the Tree (2010)
Morace's Story (2022)

Novels

   Slights (2009)
   Mistification (2011)
   The Grief Hole (2016)
   Tide of Stone (2018)
   Into Bones like Oil (2019)
   The Underhistory (2024)
   Bright Hearts (2024)

Collections

   The Grinding House (2005)
   The Glass Woman (2007)
   Dead Sea Fruit (2010)
   The Gate Theory (2015)
   Tool Tales (2021) (with Ellen Datlow)
   Calvaria Fell (2024) (with Cat Sparks)
   Spirit Level: Strange Tools and Story (2025) (with Monica Carroll and Ellen Datlow)

Novellas and Short Stories

Seeing Eye Dog (2008)
Bitters (2023)

Series contributed to

Twelve Planets
6. Through Splintered Walls (2012)

Cemetery Dance Select
Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren (2015)

Refuge Collection
1. Heaven to Some... (2016) (with Ramsey Campbell and Paul Kane)

Rewind or Die
20. The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 2 (2020) (with Declan Burnett and Jessica McHugh)

Dark Tide Horror Novellas
6. Vandal: Stories of Damage (2023) (with J S Breukelaar and Aaron Dries)

Non fiction

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Books containing stories by Kaaron Warren

Fever Dreams (2025)
(Flame Tree Book of Horror, book 6)
edited by
Mark Morris

The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Volume 1 (2025)
(Best Weird Fiction of the Year, book 1)
edited by
Michael Kelly

Night & Day (2025)
(Saga Doubles)
edited by
Ellen Datlow

More books

Awards

	2025 Ditmar Award for Best Novel : The Underhistory
	2025 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work : Calvaria Fell
	2024 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : Bitters
	2023 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : The Smell of Waiting
	2023 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : Remnants and Bad Water
	2023 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : The Smell of Waiting
	2023 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : Remnants and Bad Water
	2022 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : The King in Yella
	2022 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work : Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired by Antique Tools
	2021 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : The Calenture
	2019 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella : Into Bones like Oil
	2018 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella : Crisis Apparition
	2018 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel : Tide of Stone
	2017 Ditmar Award for Best Novel : The Grief Hole
	2016 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel : The Grief Hole
	2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella : Sky
	2013 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : Sky
	2013 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work : Through Splintered Walls
	2013 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story : Air, Water, and the Grove
	2013 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella : Air, Water and the Grove
	2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story : Sky
	2010 Ditmar Award for Best Novel : Slights
	2006 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : Fresh Young Widow
	2006 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : The Grinding House
	1998 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story : A Positive

Award nominations

	2025 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (finalist) : The Underhistory
	2025 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Bright Hearts
	2025 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : The Emporium
	2024 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : The Deathplace Set
	2024 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work (nominee) : Vandal: Stories of Damage
	2024 Aurealis Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Calvaria Fell
	2023 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella (nominee) : Bitters
	2023 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella (nominee) : Bitters
	2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Into Bones like Oil
	2020 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Into Bones like Oil
	2019 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Tide of Stone
	2019 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Tide of Stone
	2019 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Into Bones like Oil
	2017 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella (nominee) : Furtherest
	2016 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : 68 Days
	2016 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : 68 Days
	2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Death's Door Cafe
	2015 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : Witnessing
	2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Unwanted Women of Surrey
	2014 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Air, Water and the Grove
	2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Sky
	2013 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Sky
	2013 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : The Human Moth
	2012 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Mistification
	2012 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : All You Can Do Is Breathe
	2012 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Mistification
	2012 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : The Lighthouse Keepers' Club
	2012 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella (nominee) : The Lighthouse Keepers' Club
	2011 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Walking the Tree
	2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : All You Can Do Is Breathe
	2010 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Tontine Mary
	2009 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Slights
	2008 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : His Lipstick Minx
	2006 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : Woman Train
	2006 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : Dead Sea Fruit
	2003 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : State of Oblivion
	2001 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Speaker of Heaven
	2000 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Left Behind
	1998 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : The Glass Woman
	1996 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : The Hanging People
	1995 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : Skin Holes
	1995 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Blue Stream

Kaaron Warren recommends

My Ex, the Antichrist (2025)
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"Thrumming with energy and tension, My Ex, The Antichrist is a horror-filled love letter to music and how it can save our souls."

The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey (2025)
Kathleen Kaufman
"Evocative, with brilliantly-wrought historical detail, The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey is rich in myth, mystery, and an exploration of fate and the soul."

Black Days & Bloody Nights (2024)
Greg Chapman
"Rife with terror, tension and torment from the first story to the last, this collection shows the gifted Chapman at the top of his game."

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