Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, alternative history, post apocalyptic SF, horror, steampunk novels and short stories. Her first books were the dark fantasy Legacy of the Dark Kind trilogy, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire.
Her steampunk novels so far are the award winning Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron and sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. She has had many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies. These have included Tales of the Lake 2, alongside Richard Chizmar, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lebbon and Jack Ketchum. She also had a story in Billie Sue Mosiman’s Frightmare –Women Write Horror which was shortlisted for a prestigious Bram Stoker award in 2016.
She has appeared in two international lists of best female horror writers. In 2013, she was signed up by Telos Publishing for her collection of Victorian ghost stories, Absinthe and Arsenic and in 2015, the alternative history/ supernatural novel, Death’s Dark Wings. All the Cyrus books are with Telos now in new editions with the third book in the series due in 2019.
A lifelong Dr Who fan, Raven was delighted and honoured to be part of the script team on a spin off film, The Daemons of Devil’s End by Reeltime Pictures in 2017. She also contributed to the novelisation of the film.
Raven brought out a horror novella, The Bane of Bailgate in 2018 and is currently working on a Victorian-based supernatural novel, The Arcane and a prequel to her Legacy of The Dark Kind trilogy, entitled The Blood of Kings More recently Raven has a post, post apocalyptic SF novel released by Demain Publishing called House of Wrax and a short story in an anthology set in celebrated author Dave Jeffery's A Quiet Apocalypse world called A Silent Dystopia.

Readers, please note , some old editions of Blood Tears,Blood Lament, Blood Alliance and the Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire are no longer available and publishers no longer trading. So far Blood Tears and The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire are now republished with lovely new covers. Goodreads does not let the author remove out of date editions