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Ally Wilkes

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Ally Wilkes
Occupation
NationalityBritish
Period2020–present
Genre
Website
allywilkes.com

Ally Wilkes is an LGBTQ English author of horror novels and short stories.[1] She also writes under the name A. V. Wilkes.[2] Wilkes studied law at the University of Oxford and practised as a criminal barrister for eleven years. She currently lives in Greenwich, London.[3]

Wilkes has published two novels, All the White Spaces (2022) and Where the Dead Wait (2023), both alternate history polar exploration stories set in early twentieth-century Antarctica and nineteenth-century Arctic respectively.[2] She said she has always been fascinated by the early polar expeditions and "the unbeatable combination of harsh and deadly terrain, isolation, claustrophobia".[4]

Wilkes has also published several works of short fiction and is Book Reviews Editor for the British horror website, Horrified.[1][2][4] All the White Spaces was nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.[5]

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Novels

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Short fiction

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  • "You're About to See This Colour Everywhere" (Three Crows Magazine, July 2020) – short story
  • "Where Things Fall from the Sky" (Nightmare Magazine, August 2021) – short story
  • "Who's That Trip Trappin'" (It Calls from the Doors, October 2021) – short story
  • "Darkness Falls" (Cloisterfox, Spring/Summer 2022) – short story
  • "Summons" (Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories, October 2022) – short story
  • Jamie Hallow and the End of the World (Cemetery Gates Media, July 2023) – novella, using the name A. V. Wilkes

References

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  1. ^ a b "A Point of Pride: Interview with Ally Wilkes". Horror Writers Association. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Pastorella, Bob (24 November 2023). "Look Out For … Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes". This Is Horror. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  3. ^ Brewer, Robert Lee (6 December 2023). "Ally Wilkes: On the Difficulty of the Second Novel". Writer's Digest. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b Ladzinski, Jo (25 January 2022). "Author to Author with Ally Wilkes (All the White Spaces)". Jo Writes Fantasy. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  5. ^ a b "The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot". Bram Stoker Award. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  6. ^ Duckert, Lowell (15 April 2022). "Masculinity and the Polar Gothic: On Ally Wilkes's All the White Spaces". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  7. ^ Slayton, John (December 2023). "Where the Dead Wait: A Novel". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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