'Raven Dane; ‘Raven Dane presents uncommon alternative history woven with a dark sensibility, and told with unbridled imagination.’Stan Nicholls, internationally acclaimed fantasy author. Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, horror, alternative history and steampunk novels. Her first books were the critically acclaimed Legacy of the Dark Kind series, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire. (With zero influence from Sir Terry Pratchett) Raven's comedy comes from her love of Monty Python and Blackadder. Her steampunk novels so far are Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron, winner of the prestigious Victorian Steampunk Society's Best Novel award in 2012 and the sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. The third in the series, Cyrus Darian and The Wicked Wraith was published in July, 2019. All the Cyrus Darian books are now with Telos Publishing.Raven has had a great many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies including Dean Drinkel's trilogy Tres Librorum Prohibitorum, Tales from the Lake 2 published by Crystal Lake and an anthology of woman horror writers, edited by Billie Sue Mosiman entitled Fright Mare...Women Write Horror.This anthology was in a shortlist of three for a Stoker award in 2017. Raven is a regular contributor to Phantasmagoria Magazine and to the Gruesome Grotesques anthologies edited by Trevor Kennedy. She was signed up by Telos to be the first author published in their new Moonrise imprint with her collection of macabre Victorian and Steampunk short stories, entitled Absinthe and Arsenic, published in autumn 2013. Death's Dark Wings, an alternative history/ supernatural novel set in 1066 was published by Telos in spring 2015.As an obsessive Dr Who fangirl since the very first episode, Raven was delighted to have collaborated on the script of a new film released on DVD, The Daemons of Devil's End. She was excited to get an acting role in the film which stars Damaris Hayman. Raven also worked on the novelisation of the film.Raven has appeared on two lists of top women horror writers , published to celebrate February's Women in Horror Month, 2013.Raven's spooky novella, The Bane of Bailgate was published in August 2018, written as a tribute to the enthusiastic steampunk movement and the huge, four day celebration A Weekend at the Asylum in Old Lincoln. She has a well received novella set in a chaotic, dystopian distant future published in November 2019. House of Wrax is with Demain Publishing.An enthusiastic fan of Dave Jeffrey's work, including his bleak but brilliant A Quiet Apocalypse series , Raven was delighted and honoured to have a short story in his international anthology set in his world entitled A Silent Dystopia. Though not a crime writer, her story in a charity anthology, Criminal Pursuits, Crime Through Time, entitled The Way of All Flesh was longlisted for a short story award by the prestigious Crime Writers Association in 2022. . Most recently Telos Publishing brought out her new folk horror novel, Drwg Stones set in the Atomic Age of the late 1940s/1950s and set in a small, British seaside village on the edge of the beautiful, wild fells of the Lake District. She is currently working on a dark fantasy novel set in Cyrus Darian's alternative Victorian London, a prequel to her Legacy of the Dark Kind series, entitled Blood of Kings, a contemporary horror novelette set in Manchester and the Cotswolds and is currently working in collaboration with Dave Jeffrey to bring out another book in the AQA universe.All Raven's work including stories in anthologies are available on Amazon UK and USARead more about this authorRead less about this author