Ally Wilkes, the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of All the White Spaces and Where the Dead Wait, grew up in a succession of isolated—possibly haunted—country houses and boarding schools. After studying law at Oxford, she went on to spend eleven years as a criminal barrister. Ally now lives in Greenwich, London, with an anatomical human skeleton and far too many books about exploration, the weird and the macabre.
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*PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF ALLY WILKES*
"Haunting...Ominous."
– The New York Times Book Review
"Beautiful, brilliant writing about good men (and bad) facing the unimaginable. I was swallowed whole by Ally Wilkes' terrifying story of Arctic survival. Dare I say it's better than Dan Simmons' THE TERROR?"
– Alma Katsu, author of THE FERVOR and THE HUNGER
"Spectacular . . . a breathtaking achievement."
– Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Harrowing and clawing with the iciest fingernails. The only thing harder to escape than the bloodthirsty sea is the longing and regret. WHERE THE DEAD WAIT proves that the frozen nightmare is the domain of Ally Wilkes; we're just left to survive it."
– Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of QUEEN OF TEETH
"WHERE THE DEAD WAIT is a full-body plunge into nineteenth-century seafaring, Arctic survival, and the frigid darkness of the human psyche, in a setting as frostbitten and dread-inducing as the ghosts that haunt it. I was moved by Captain Day's inner war of longing and regret, and rewarded by the beautiful, immersive prose. With her second polar outing, Wilkes stakes her claim as the new ice-master of horror fiction."
– Luke Dumas, author of THE PALEONTOLOGIST and A HISTORY OF FEAR
*The Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age*
– Esquire
“ALL THE WHITE SPACES is a heady and haunting mix of historical fiction, polar survival horror, and a meditation on gender, identity, and the enduring mysteries of the self. You won't soon forget Jonathan Morgan and his trial by ice.”
– Paul Tremblay, author of A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS and SURVIVOR SONG
"Some of the best survival horror we’ve read in years, with a uniquely menacing adversary at its heart."
– Vulture, "The Best Horror Novels of 2022"
"Wilkes’ grueling epic is uniquely committed to unpacking the sub-genre’s chauvinistic myths . . . The novel contains all the gritty, muscular details that makes stories like this so grimly enjoyable, but at the same time, it deconstructs those very same tropes. The inclusion of various queer identities is a masterstroke. It distinguishes All the White Spaces from other Antarctic fiction, offering a bleakly heartening suggestion that, in times of hardship, prejudice can give way to compassion and collaboration."
– Esquire, "The 22 Best Horror Books of 2022"
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