Bryce J Stevens

Bryce John Stevens is a horror writer, illustrator and editor. He grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand and moved to Sydney in the mid-1980s. Stevens was the basis for the character 'Doc Martin' as drawn and photographed in various of Christopher Sequeira's occult detective graphic novel series, Deadlocke and Doc Martin. Stevens is noted for his hard-edged and uncompromising horror content; however he often delves into black humour. His short stories have also appeared in Black Moon, Bloodsongs, Cold Cuts, Dead By Dawn, E.O.D, Forbidden Tomes, Cthulhu and the Co-Eds: Kids & Squids, Midnight Echo, Misanthrope, Octavia, Outside, and Terror Australis. He edited issues 5-11 of the official newsletter Severed Head from 1996 through 1998. He continues to draw and paint, and holds regular exhibitions of work in different Australia. He has controversially used his own blood in some of his paintings, which he refers to as "blood works" His novel in progress is The Malign Flesh.