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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...

"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 quiet English village harbors a dark secret.Trying to escape his past, veteran Jake Crowley takes a teaching position in the village of Market Scarston. But his slow rehabilitation is interrupted when a group of students are apparently attacked by Black Shuck, the legendary demon dog, and Crowley attracts the attention of a secret society dating back to the days of the Roman Empire.See how it all began for Jake Crowley and Rose Black in this prequel novella, SANCTUM!...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 Jade Dragon protected Long-En for centuries – until it was taken.When the Jade Dragon is stolen from the temple in the quiet village of Long-En, the locals are stunned. The very idea of such a theft is unimaginable. And without the protection of the powerful icon, what awful fate might befall the peaceful hamlet?Two young cousins, Li Yong Fa, a martial monk recently returned from years of training at the Shaolin Temple, and Li Zi Yi, a potent geomancer, team up to track...

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:...