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Bram Stoker Nominee and Shirley Jackson Award winner Kaaron Warren has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji. She's sold many short stories, three novels (the multi-award-winning Slights, Walking the Tree and Mistification) and six short story collections. Through Splintered Walls, won a Canberra Critic's Circle Award for Fiction, two Ditmar Awards, two Australian Shadows Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award. Her story Air, Water and the Grove appeared in Paula Guran's Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. Her IFWG published novel The Grief Hole, won an Australian Shadow Award and an Aurealis Award. Warren's award-winning fiction tackles the themes of obsession, murder, grief, despair, revenge, manipulation, death and sex.
"""The Gate Theory is a perfect example of Kaaron Warrens accomplishment in converting different themes and subjects into dense and powerful fiction. Her stories have the tendency to insidiously crawl under the readers skin, slithering unnoticed until they find a place from where one is unable to shake them loose after reading. ~ Dark Wolfs Fantasy Reviews Kaaron Warren is without doubt one of the world's leading writers of dark fiction, and The Gate Theory showcases her talent perfectly... Her prose is powerful, her sense of place is evocative and her imagination knows no bounds. This is the kind of book that you will remember long after you finish reading the last story. ~ M R Cosby, Stranger Designs Each of these stories stretches the boundaries of both storytelling and character. Warrens is a unique voice in horror. She has an ability to take us to places so utterly disturbing yet simultaneously so mundane and believable, that you start to look at people you meet with a sidelong glance. I call it The Warren Perception. Its unavoidable. Read her work and you will start to look at people as she does. This is not necessarily a good thing, but its fascinating. ~ Alan Baxter, Thirteen OClock"""
