{{Short description|Australian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Brett McBean | image = | imagesize = 200px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = December 1978 | birth_place = Melbourne, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | period = 2002&ndash; | genre = Horror fiction, thriller fiction, speculative fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''The Mother'', ''Wolf Creek: Desolation Game'' | signature = | website = {{URL|brettmcbean.com}} }}

'''Brett McBean''' is best known as an award-winning Australian horror, thriller and speculative fiction writer. He was born and raised in Melbourne. He is also a drummer and has an Advanced Diploma from Box Hill College of Music

McBean's novel ''The Mother'' was nominated as the "Best Novel" for the 2007 Ditmar Awards (where he was also nominated as "Best New Talent"), a Ned Kelly Award for "Best Novel" of 2007, a 2007 Aurealis Award for "Best Novel," and it received a 2006 honorable mention by the Australian Shadows Awards. His short story collection ''Tales of Sin and Madness'' won the 2011 Australian Shadows Award for "Best Collection".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://australianhorror.com/articles.php?article=2 |title=Australian Shadows Award winners 2011 |access-date=6 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111003610/http://australianhorror.com/articles.php?article=2 |archive-date=11 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He also has a keen interest in true crime, in particular the infamous Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. He runs a Jack the Ripper website, ''Saucy Jacky'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://saucyjacky.wordpress.com/ | title = Saucy Jacky website}}</ref> in which he reviews Ripper movies and literature, and shares his thoughts about popular suspects and Ripper victims.

==Selected bibliography==

===Novels=== * ''Wolf Creek: Desolation Game'' (2014, Penguin Books Australia, co-written with Greg McLean) * ''The Awakening'' (2012, Tasmaniac Publications) * ''The Mother'' (2006, Lothian Books) * ''The Last Motel'' (2002, Wild Roses Productions/2005, Biting Dog Press) (2011, LegumeMan Books updated edition)

===Novellas and novelettes=== * ''Buk and Jimmy Go West'' (2013, LegumeMan Books) * ''Dead Tree Forest'' (2011, Delirium Books) * "Jungle" trilogy (''Concrete Jungle'' / ''Neighbourhood Jungle'' / ''Suburban Jungle'' 2010, 2011, 2013, Tasmaniac Publications) * ''The Familiar Stranger'' (2006, Necessary Evil Press)

===Short story collections=== * ''Tales of Sin and Madness'' (2008, Thunderstorm Books) (2010, LegumeMan Books updated edition)

===Articles=== * "On Research, Dead Trees and Horror in Australia," for the Australian Horror Writers Association<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://australianhorror.com/articles.php?article=2 |title=Article for the Australian Horror Writers Association, 13th October, 2006 |access-date=6 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111003610/http://australianhorror.com/articles.php?article=2 |archive-date=11 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.brettmcbean.com/ Brett McBean's official website] * [https://www.facebook.com/brett.mcbean/ Brett McBean's Facebook page] * [http://saucyjacky.wordpress.com/ Brett McBean's Jack the Ripper website] * [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/126748.Brett_Mcbean/ Brett McBean's Goodreads page] * [http://www.crimedownunder.com/nedkellyawards.html List of Ned Kelly Award nominees and winners] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100423065700/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2007.html Locus list of 2007 Aurealis Award nominees]

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