The Real Locations Behind Ian’s Peak

A lot of readers don’t realise this, but many of the eerie, isolated, atmospheric locations in The Dark Secret of Ian’s Peak were inspired by real places around Western Australia. The kind of spots where the bush goes quiet, the wind sounds wrong, and you start imagining caves with experiments inside them.

Those real landscapes shaped the mood of the story long before it became a novel. So when you read Ian’s Peak, you’re stepping into a world built from actual WA locations — just with fewer tourists and more supernatural chaos.