Ally Wilkes is an LGBTQ English author of horror novels and short stories.
[2] Wilkes studied law at the University of Oxford and practised as a criminal barrister for eleven years.
[3] Wilkes has published two novels, All the White Spaces (2022) and Where the Dead Wait (2023), both alternate history polar exploration stories set in early twentieth-century Antarctica and nineteenth-century Arctic respectively.
[2] She said she has always been fascinated by the early polar expeditions and "the unbeatable combination of harsh and deadly terrain, isolation, claustrophobia".
[4] Wilkes has also published several works of short fiction and is Book Reviews Editor for the British horror website, Horrified.