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A SAMPLER OF ALAN BAXTER'S DARK FICTIONHorror, crime, and dark fantasy.Enjoy four spine-chilling stories from the pen of Australia's award-winning master of literary darkness, along with the chance to sample six of his longer works.Featuring one full novella ("Out On A Rim" from The Gulp), three entire short stories ("Crow Shine" from Crow Shine, "Simulacrum of Hope" from Served Cold

From cosmic terrors in underground caverns to warrior nuns protecting humanity to invisible aliens decimating a faraway world, within these pages you'll find six stories of military horror. Taken from the pages of (or inspired by) the SNAFU anthology series, where the remit is for stories crammed with extreme action, monsters, and military mayhem, everything here will leave you breathless.Lock and load, people. It's going to be intense.This volume includes:...

Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don't even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.A couple of weed dealers give themselves a real headache.A young man finds joy in a secret place with the new love of his life.The children of violent, b...

The dark fantasy collection features 19 stories, including the Australian Shadows Award-winning "Shadows of the Lonely Dead"; and original title story "Crow Shine" in addition to two other never before published stories."Alan Baxter is an accomplished storyteller who ably evokes magic and menace. Whether it's stories of ghost-liquor and soul-draining blues, night club magicians, sinister western pastoral landscapes, or a suburban suicide–Crow Shine has a mean bite."—Laird Barron, a...

Olivia has been missing for months. Her family have tried to accept that perhaps she'll never be found, and they'll never know what happened. So when her brother Craig unexpectedly receives a stack of letters from Liv, all written not long after her disappearance, he's both excited and frightened. Reading through her correspondence, Craig begins to get a sense of where she was, but he still doesn't know where she is now, or if she's still alive. Using what clues he can from the old letters...

A fiction writer's resource for creating realistic, convincing fight scenes.Fully updated 2026 Edition, with additional details and extra example fight scenes.Author and martial arts instructor, Alan Baxter, presents a short ebook describing all the things a writer needs to consider when writing fight scenes. Baxter's experience from decades as a career martial artist make this book a valuable resource for writers who want to understand what fighting is all about - what it ...

Damnation & Dames is a collection of paranormal noir stories investigating the supernatural shadows surrounding classic crime. Inside this book are sixteen hand-picked stories, all original, featuring good guys, gumshoes, femme fatales, bootleggers, and gangsters: all your favourite noir characters mixed up with ghosts, giant monsters, faerie, vampires, and werewolves.

The Gulp (Tales From The Gulp #1)Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don't even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there.Teenage...

Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek.A farmer goes missing after a blue in the pub. A teenage couple fail to show up for work. When Patrick and Sheila McDonough investigate, they discover the missing persons list is growing. Before they realise what's happening, the residents of the remote town find themselves in a fight for their lives against a foe they would never have suspected.And the dry red earth will run with blood.

Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don't even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.A man enjoying early retirement makes the mistake of visiting The Gulp.A fishing boat crew find themselves somewhere entirely unexpected....

"Bone-cracking terror from the stygian depths!"Sometimes, the legends are true.When eccentric billionaire Ellis Holloway hires renegade marine biologist Sam Aston to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something terrible living beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme and it is hungry.As the dea...

A small mountain town hides a dark secret…When his father’s death brings Grant Shipman to the Appalachian town of Wallen’s Gap, he believes his biggest problem will be dealing with the slow pace and odd townsfolk. But something sinister is at work. A dark power rises, an echo of the town’s bloody past. A book of blood magic offers an unspeakable horror a gateway into the world of the living, and only Grant stands in the way of their Dark Rite.Praise for Dark Rite“Wo...