When the city is sick, everyone suffers.Steven Hines listened to the city and the city spoke. Cleveport told him she was sick. With his unnatural connection to her, that meant Hines was sick too. But when his friend, Detective Abby Jones, comes to him for help investigating a series of deaths with no discernible cause, Hines can't say no. Then strange fungal growths begin to appear in the streets, affecting anyone who gets too close, turning them into violent lunatics. As ...

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...

"I know your secret."Alex Caine is a martial artist fighting in illegal cage matches. His powerful secret weapon is an unnatural vision that allows him to see his opponents’ moves before they know their intentions themselves.When enigmatic Englishman, Patrick Welby, shows Alex how to unleash a breathtaking realm of magic and power, Alex is drawn into a mind-bending adventure beyond his control.And control is something Alex values above all else…A cursed grim...

"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...

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...

Dark urban fantasy that delivers a punch!This collection includes the first three books in Alan Baxter's thrilling Alex Caine series: Bound, Obsidian, and Abduction!Bound"I know your secret."Alex Caine is a martial artist fighting in illegal cage matches. His powerful secret weapon is an unnatural vision that allows him to see his opponents’ moves before they know their intentions themselves. When enigmatic Englishman, Patrick Welby, shows Alex how to unleas...

What lurks beneath the ice?Marine biologist Sam Aston is hired to explore a series of subterranean caverns deep beneath the Antarctic. Somewhere within this lost world of magnificent caverns and underground seas lies a source of limitless clean energy, but something guards this treasure. As enemies bent on obtaining this world-changing resource for themselves close in from above, Aston and his team plunge further into the depths, and discover they are not the first to come this way...

An ancient order.A deadly conspiracy.A race against time.When Jake Crowley rescues Rose Black from assailants on the streets of London, the two find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could cost them their lives. People are dying, and all the victims have one thing in common with Rose: a birthmark in the shape of an eagle.From beneath the streets of London, to castle dungeons, to the heart of Christendom and beyond, Jake and Rose must race to stay alive ...

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...

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...

WELCOME TO THE COMPLETE ELI CARVER SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES FROM ALAN BAXTER, THE AWARD-WINNING MASTER OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASYFollowing a psychotic break, Eli Carver finds himself on the run, in the company of a terrified woman he doesn't know. As layers of ugly truth are peeled back and dark secrets revealed, the duo find themselves in a struggle for survival as they unravel a mystery that pits them against the most dangerous forces in their lives.T...

SERVED COLD2019 AUSTRALIAN SHADOWS AWARDS WINNER – Best Collected WorkIncludes "In Vaulted Halls Entombed" as seen on the Netflix Original Series LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS16 provocative and intensely chilling tales blending horror, fantasy, and the weird."At turns creepy and visceral, Baxter delivers the horror goods." – Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the WorldCollected ...