Brimstone Press
Brimstone Press was an Australian independent publisher of dark fiction. Brimstone Press was established in 2004 by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings and was based in Western Australia.
The first publication from Brimstone Press was Shadowed Realms, an online flash fiction horror magazine that was active from 2004 to 2007. Authors published in Shadowed Realms include Terry Dowling, Richard Harland, Robert Hood, Poppy Z Brite, Stephen Dedman, Kurt Newton, Martin Livings, Lee Battersby, Paul Haines, Steven Cavanagh and Kaaron Warren. Shadowed Realms gained professional status from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2005 and was nominated for the Best Collected Work Ditmar Award in 2006.
Brimstone Press also published HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log, a news and review webzine. In December 2006, Brimstone Press moved into book publication. Among their published anthologies are Shadow Box and the Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror series.
Brimstone Press produced a newsstand-quality horror magazine, Black: Australia's Dark Culture magazine which ran for three issues in 2008. Many of Australia's best-known horror writers including Rob Hood, Leigh Blackmore and others appeared in its pages.
Several stories and projects published by Brimstone Press have won, or been nominated for, Australian and international literary awards.Publications
- Shadowed Realms online magazine, ed. Angela Challis. ISSN 1832-0651
- HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log, ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al..
- Shadow Box, ed. Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings.
- Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition, ed. Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings.
- Book of Shadows Volume One, ed. Angela Challis
- Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition, ed. Angela Challis
- Black Box, ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings.
Awards
Wins
- 2007 Ditmar Award, Fanzine: HorrorScope
- 2006 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "Pater Familias" by Lee Battersby
Nominations
- 2010 Bram Stoker Award, Anthology: Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears
- 2010 Bram Stoker Award, Long Fiction: "Monsters Among Us" by Kirstyn McDermott
- 2010 Australian Shadows Award, Edited Publication: Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears
- 2010 Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction: "All The Clowns In Clowntown" by Andrew J. McKiernan
- 2008 Ditmar Award, Fanzine: HorrorScope
- 2008 William Atheling Jr Award: "The Spiraling Worm review" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
- 2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story: "Surrender 1: Rope Artist" by Deborah Biancotti
- 2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story: "Cold" by Kirstyn McDermott
- 2007 Ditmar Award, Short Story: "The Bat's Boudoir" by Kyla Ward
- 2007 Ditmar Award, Professional Achievement: Angela Challis
- 2007 William Atheling Jr Award: "Paraspheres review" by Miranda Siemienowicz
- 2006 Ditmar Award, Collected work: Shadowed Realms
- 2006 Ditmar Award, Fanzine: HorrorScope
- 2006 Australian Shadows Award: Shadow Box
- 2006 Australian Shadows Award: "Pater Familias" by Lee Battersby
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