Private company

Chimaera Publications

Logo: aurealis.com.au3

Australian publisher of speculative fiction

Chimaera Publications is a publisher based in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine Aurealis as well as running the Aurealis Awards.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Chimaera Publications is a publisher based in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine Aurealis as well as running the Aurealis Awards.2

The story

Chimaera Publications begun publishing the Aurealis magazine in 1990. In 1995 Chimaera established the Aurealis Awards which is held yearly to reward the achievement in Australian speculative fiction. Chimaera also publishes books and in 2004 they published the multi-award-winning novel The Black Crusade by Richard Harland. The Black Crusade won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and was named the 2004 Golden Aurealis novel. It was a short-list nominee for the 2005 Ditmar Award for best novel. The artwork featured on the cover of The Black Crusade also won the 2005 Ditmar award for best artwork for Kerri Valkova.

From Wikipedia’s article on Chimaera Publications, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

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