High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Leigh David Blackmore (born 1959) is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist and musician. He served as the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association (2010–2011). His work has been nominated twice for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and once for criticism. According to The Melbourne University Press Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, "His name is now synonymous with Australian horror" and a Hodder & Stoughton press release stated that "Leigh Blackmore is to horror what Glenn A. Baker is to rock and roll".