David Conyers

Science Fiction Author

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Listing of Novels and Collections, Short Stories, Non-Fiction, Editing and Comics publications by David Conyers. For Reviews and Gaming, go to Page 2.

Awards

Aeon Award - September 2006-2007 Shortlist 
"Black Water" Jupiter SF #24

ASif! Recommended Reading List 2006
"Aftermath" Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press, 2006)

Aurealis Awards 2006 Nomination - Best Science Fiction Story
"Aftermath" Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press, 2006)

Aurealis Awards 2007 Honourable Mention - Best Horror Novel
The Spiraling Worm with John Sunseri (Chaosium Inc., 2007)
 

Australian Shadows 2008 Shortlist
"Subtle Invasion" The Black Book of Horror (Mortbury Press, 2007)

Australian Shadows 2008 Honourable Mention
The Spiraling Worm with John Sunseri (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

Australian Horror Writers Association Flash Fiction Story Competition - Winner 2007
"Homo Canis"

Australian Horror Writers Association Short Fiction Story Competition - Commendation 2008
"The Lord of the Law" 

Ditmar Award 2007 Nomination - Best Novella
"Aftermath" Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press, 2006)

Ditmar Award 2007 Nomination - Best New Talent
David Conyers

Ditmar Award 2008 Nomination - Best New Talent
David Conyers

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Third Annual Volume - Recommended Reading List
"Aftermath" Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press, 2006)

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Fourth Annual Volume - Recommended Reading List
"From the Sick Trees" Cthulhu Australis Part 1 (Rainfall Books, 2007)
"Weapon Grade" The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 - Honourable Mention
"From the Sick Trees" (Cthulhu Australis Part 1, Rainfall Books 2007)
"The Spiraling Worm" with John Sunseri (The Spiraling Worm, Chaosium Inc. 2007)
"Weapon Grade" (The Spiraling Worm, Chaosium Inc. 2007)

Novels and Collections

The Spiraling Worm
with John Sunseri
Chaosium Inc. 2007
Aurealis Awards 2007 - Honourable Mention Best Horror Novel
Australian Shadows 2008 - Honourable Mention

Short Stories

(CM) = Cthulhu Mythos, (DF) = Dark Fiction, (HP) = Harrison Peel, (SF) = Science Fiction

Aftermath
10,700 words (SF)
Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press, 2006)
Aurealis Awards 2006 Nomination - Best Science Fiction Story 
Ditmar Award 2007 Nomination - Best Novella
Apex Online
(August 2007) 

As Above, So Below
6,800 words (CM) 
Secrets of Kenya (Chaosium Inc., 2007)
The Writing Show (Halloween Special, 2007)
 

A Shared Romance
10,200 words (CM)
Dreaming in R'lyeh #2 (Night Platform Press, 2003)
Cthulhu Express (Rage Machine Books, 2006)
Cthulhu Australis Part 2 (Rainfall Books, 2007)

Black Water
8,000 words (SF) 
Jupiter SF #24 (2009)
Albedo 1: Aeon Award 2006-2007 (Shortlisted September 2006)

Cactus
5,000 words (DF)
Midnight Echo #1 (Australian Horror Writers Association, 2008)

Conversion of Savages
8,300 words (SF) 
New Ceres: The Anthology (Twelfth Planet Press, 2009)

Dream Machine
4,200 words (DF) 
Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books, forthcoming)

The Entropy Collapse
10,000 words (SF) 
All Science Fiction Anthology (SpecFicWorld, 2009)

The Faceless Watchers
6,800 words (CM)
Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries #10 (Arkham Press, 2005) 

False Containment
9,800 words (HP)
Horrors Beyond (Elder Signs Press, 2005)
The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

Five Sisters
4,300 words (CM) 
Temple of Dagon.com (2006)
Cthulhu Australis Part 1 (Rainfall Books, 2007)

From the Sick Trees
7,600 words (CM)
Cthulhu Australis Part 1 (Rainfall Books, 2007) 
 

Hell's Ambassador
600 words (DF) 
Black Box (Brimstone Press, 2008)

Homo Canis
1,000 words (DF)
Australian Horror Writers Assocaition Flash Story Competition Winner 2007 
2008 Award Wining Australian Stories (Melbourne Books, 2008)
Shadowed Realms #13 (Brimstone Press, Forthcoming)

Impossible Object
6,200 words (HP)
Dreaming in R'lyeh #3 (Night Platform Press, 2005)
The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

The Lord of the Law
4,000 words (DF) 
Australian Horror Writers Assocaition Short Story Competition Commendation 2008 

Made of Meat
4,300 words (HP)
Temple of Dagon.com (2005)
The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

The Masked Messenger
with John Goodrich
9,700 words (HP)
Nyarlathotep: Visages of the Void (Elder Signs Press, Forthcoming)

Outside, Looking In
10,300 words (CM)
Hardboiled Cthulhu (Elder Signs Press, 2006)

Redemption Slot Machine
500 words (SF)
Anitpodean SF #117 (2008) 

Regrowth
5,000 words (CM)
Arkham Tales (Chaosium Inc., 2006)

Reversed Terror
3,400 words (HP)
Horror Carousel #5 (Loki Press, 2007)

Screaming Crawler 
9,400 words (CM)
Dreaming in R'lyeh #1 (Night Platform Press, 2003)
In Lovecraft's Shadow #1 (Tenoka Press, 2007) 

Sister of the Sands
8,600 words (CM) 
Cthulhu's Dark Cults (Chaosium Inc., 2009) 

Six-Legged Shadows
with Brian M Samomons
5,800 words (SF) 
Giant Creatures Anthology (Permuted Press, 2009)

Soft Viscosity
8,300 words (SF)
2012 (Twelfth Planet Press, 2008)

Solvent Hunger
5,800 words (CM) 
Book of Dark Wisdom #5 (Elder Signs Press, 2005) 
Cthulhu Australis Part 1 (Rainfall Books, 2007)

The Spiraling Worm 
with John Sunseri
31,600 words (HP)
The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

Stomach Acid
with Brian M Samomons
7,400 words (HP)
Lovecraft's Disciples #5 (Rainfall Books, 2006)
Cthulhu Unbound 2 (Permuted Press, 2009)

Subtle Invasion
5,100 words (DF) 
The Black Book of Horror (Mortbury Press, 2007)
Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Volume 3 (Brimstone Press, 2008)

Best New Tales of the Apocalypse (Permuted Press, forthcoming)
Australian Shadows 2008 - Shortlist

Sweet as Decay
with David Witteveen
7,300 words (DF)
Macabre (Brimstone Press, 2009)

The Swelling
5,500 words (CM)
The King in Yellow (Atlantean Press, 2007)
Cthulhu Australis Part 2 (Rainfall Books, 2007)

Terraformer
6,000 words (SF) 
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37 (2008)

Three Shots
4,100 words (DF) 
Horror Carousel #4 (Loki Press, 2006)

Vanishing Curves
2,600 words (CM)
Book of Dark Wisdom #3 (Elder Signs Press, 2004)
Temple of Dagon.com (2005)
Cthulhu Australis Part 2 (Rainfall Books, 2007)

Weapon Grade
13,500 words (HP)
The Spiraling Worm (Chaosium Inc., 2007)

Non-Fiction

Film Vault: The Devil's Backbone
with Darrell Schweitzer and CJ Henderson
1,500 words
Book of Dark Wisdom #7 (Elder Signs Press, 2005)

Fluor: Meeting the Challenge (Additional Material)
with Brian Carroll
10,000 words
(Focus Publishing Pty Ltd, 2001)

Horror in Africa: Spot the Difference
100 words
Book of Dark Wisdom #7 (Elder Signs Press, 2005) 

Terra Occulta
with Adam Crossingham, Daniel Harms and Nick Brownlow 
7,000 words
The Black Seal #3 (Birchester University Press, 2004)

Editing

Book of Dark Wisdom
Associate Editor
Issue #4 (Elder Signs Press, 2004) 
Issue #5 (Elder Signs Press, 2005) 
Issue #6 (Elder Signs Press, 2005)
Issue #7 (Elder Signs Press, 2005)
Issue #8 (Elder Signs Press, 2006) 
Issue #9 (Elder Signs Press, 2006) 

Cthulhu's Dark Cults: Schemes of the Secret Masters
Editor
(Chaosium Inc., Forthcoming)

"Introduction" (David Conyers)
"The Eternal Chinaman" -- San Francisco 1920 (John Sunseri) 
"Captains of Industry" -- Boston 1921 (John Goodrich)
"Perfect Skin" -- Istanbul 1922 (David Witteveen)
"Covenant of Darkness" -- New York 1923 (William Jones)
"The Whisper of Ancient Secrets" -- Australia 1925 (Penelope Love)
"Old Ghost" -- Shanghai 1926 (Peter A. Worthy)
"The Nature of Faith" -- Dunwich 1927 (Oscar Rios)
"The Devil's Diamonds" -- Kenya 1930 (Cody Goodfellow)
"Requiem for the Burning God" -- Peru 1932 (Shane Jiraiya Cummings)
"Sister of the Sands" -- Egypt 1933 (David Conyers)
"About the Authors"

Mansions of Madness, Second Edition
Editor
with William Dunn, Keith Herber and Charlie Krank 
(Chaosium Inc., 2007) 

"Mr. Corbitt" (Michael DeWolfe)
"The Plantation" (Wesley Martin)
"The Crack'd and Crook'd Manse" (Mark Morrison)
"The Sanatorium" (Keith Herber)
"Mansion of Madness" (Fred Behrendt)
"The Old Damned House" (Penelope Love & Liam Routt)

Comics

Johnny Luck: Bloc Rubble, Part 2
with Jason Badower
1,000 words
Anthology Comics #2 (ARC, 1994)

Johnny Luck: Bloc Rubble, Part 1
with Jason Badower
1,000 words
Anthology Comics #1 (ARC, 1993)