Bryce J. Stevens

Who is Bryce J. Stevens?

Bryce John Stevens is a horror writer/artist.His ancestry is connected on one side of his parentage with the Ngai Tahu Maori tribe.

Between 1987 and 1992 he co-edited, Terror Australis: The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine. A column by Stevens, "Every Time the Candle Burns", appeared in Issues 1 and 3 of Terror Australis, and he reviewed books under both his own name and the pseudonym of David Kuraria for the magazine's "In the Bad Books" column. 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.

In the mid-1990s he moved to Melbourne where he was a key figure in the Melbourne Horror Society - a forerunner to the Australian Horror Writers Association. From 1996 through 1998, Stevens was President of the Australian Horror Writers. He edited issues 5-11 of its official newsletter Severed Head Stevens also helped produce Bloodsongs magazine. In 1999 he held his solo art show, the "Screw the Millennium Bug Exhibition".