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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 four times for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and three times for the William Atheling Jr. Award for criticism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees )〕 (). He has contributed entries to such encylopedias as S.T. Joshi and Stefan J. Dziemianowicz (eds) ''Supernatural Literature of the World'' (Greenwood Press, 2005, 3 vols) and June Pulliam and Tony Fonseca (eds), ''Encyclopedia of Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend'' (ABC-Clio, 2015). 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." (). He has also been recognised as "one of the leading weird poets of our time,"〔Review of ''Spores from Sharnoth and Other Madnesses'', ''Dead Reckonings'' 4: 83 (Fall 2008)〕 and has been nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award. ==Youth== Leigh Blackmore was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Rod and Beth Blackmore. His early hobbies included philately and phillumeny. He read extensively from an early age, particularly Look and Learn with its Trigan Empire science fiction comicstrip, and later the works of Geoffrey Willans, J.P. Martin, Norman Hunter and W.E. Johns.〔Leigh Blackmore ''Black to the Blind: My Life and Magick'' (autobiography, forthcoming).〕 While attending Lane Cove West Primary School, at around age nine he was deeply affected by a reading of Rudyard Kipling's horror story "The Strange Ride of Morowbie Jukes", by Lucy Boston's fantasy novel ''The Castle of Yew'' and by the TV broadcast of Richard Matheson's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode of The Twilight Zone. He also encountered horror fiction via Stephen P. Sutton's anthologies ''Tales to Tremble By'' and ''More Tales to Tremble By''. He was later educated at North Sydney Boys High School (1971–72) and Newcastle Boys' High School (1972–76). In high school, after reading the science fiction anthology series "Out of This World" (edited by Mably Owen and Amabel Williams-Ellis), he graduated to devouring the works of Ray Bradbury , Peter Saxon, H. Rider Haggard, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Leslie Charteris, and became a keen enthusiast of sword and sorcery fiction as represented by Lin Carter's ''Flashing Swords'' anthologies and Thongor series novels (), Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian tales, Michael Moorcock's Elric sequence and others, and horror fiction (especially the Weird Tales school, including Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Donald Wandrei and H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos), discovering their work via anthologies edited by August Derleth, Peter Haining, Karl Edward Wagner (the ''Year's Best Horror Stories'' series, and via publications of Arkham House which he special-ordered via Space Age Books (Melbourne), then Australia's only specialist supplier of science fiction and fantasy books.〔"Space Age Closes". ''Locus'' (Jan 1986).〕 He was also greatly influenced by the Skywald 'horror mood' comics (''Nightmare'', ''Psycho'' and ''Scream'') and Warren Publishing's stable of horror comics such as ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'' and ''Vampirella'', and the film magazine ''Famous Monsters of Filmland''. While at high school Blackmore co-founded the Arcane Sciences Society〔Benjamin J. Szumskyj ''The Terror from Australis: An Interview with Leigh Blackmore''. ''Australian Studies in Weird Fiction'' 1 (Equilibrium Books, 2008)〕 and the Horror-Fantasy Society; the journal of the societies, ''Cathuria''〔Leigh Blackmore, J. Michael Blaxland (see Young Einstein and Lindsay Walker, ''Cathuria: The Newsletter of the Arcane Sciences Society and the Horror-Fantasy Society'', Nos 1-3 (Newcastle, NSW: Blackmore/Blaxland/Walker, 1975)〕 (named after a place in Lovecraft's story The White Ship), was banned after three issues by Blackmore's high school principal for quoting in a review four-letter words used by the unleashed monster in Flesh Gordon. Having corresponded with enthusiasts in the field such as Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Glenn Lord, W.H. Pugmire and Gregory Nicoll (Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#Nicoll, Gregory), he began (aged 13) to write fiction and speculative poetry in the vein of Lovecraft and C.A. Smith. His earliest in-print appearances included Lovecraftian sonnets in R. Alain Everts' magazines ''The Arkham Sampler'' (new series) and ''Etchings and Odysseys''. Blackmore was also a devotee of horror movies principally from the Hammer horror and Amicus Productions era. Samuel Beckett and William S. Burroughs became lasting literary influences at this time.〔 Early interest in the world of science fiction fandom was evidenced by Blackmore's attendance of Aussiecon 1 (the 33rd World Science Fiction Convention and the first such held in Australia) in 1975 at the age of 15. He there met such figures as Forrest J. Ackerman (who showed him the ring which had been worn by Bela Lugosi when playing Dracula) and Jack L. Chalker (publisher of Mirage Press); he was enthralled by Ursula K. le Guin's guest of honour speech in which she spoke of science fiction breaking out of the 'literary ghetto' and declaring that 'Philip K. Dick deserves to be placed on the shelf alongside Dickens'. ()〔Ursula K. le Guin, Guest of Honour Speech, Aussiecon 1, ''Vector'' 71 (Dec 1975); corrected reprint in ''SunCon Convention Journal'' 1 (Winter 1976)〕 He also played judo, Kendo and jiu-jitsu during high school in Sydney (at North Sydney Boys' High) and judo at Newcastle (at Newcastle Police Citizens Boys' Club, Broadmeadow); however he was only formally graded in judo. Blackmore also became interested in Aleister Crowley through reading Moonchild (novel), Crowley's ''Confessions: An Autohagiography'' and the John Symonds biography ''The Great Beast''. His other occult studies began with books by such authors as Paul Huson (on Tarot and witchcraft) and Idries Shah's The Secret Lore of Magic (on Goetia) as well as June John's biography ''King of the Witches'', on Alex Sanders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leigh Blackmore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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