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Alan Baxter
Alex Caine, a fighter by trade, is drawn into a world he never knew existed - a world he wishes he’d never found. Alex Caine is a martial artist fighting…
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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…
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Alan began beekeeping in the Loire Valley in France, where he lived and worked for 23 years. His apiary there was the target of heavy predation by Asian Hornets. He…
What should have been a breeze of a bank heist for James Glenn and his crew goes violently wrong, forcing them to flee, blood-stained and angry. They stumble onto a…
A Scottish metal detectorist looks back on a successful career in unearthing artefacts from the country's turbulent history, from coinage to jewellery and other items from centuries past, accompanied by…
16 provocative and intensely chilling tales blending horror, fantasy, and the weird by multi-award-winning author, Alan Baxter.
Something old and deadly has awoken.
When two teenagers go missing from the small, rural town of Sallow Bend, the residents come together to search for them. Little do they…
Gay For Pay, Arlene’s Descent and Casting Stones are contentious plays. In our daily lives, most of us go out of our way to avoid explosive, crass and bigoted people…
Alan Baxter’s poetry explores with clarity our deepest and most personal feelings—–the right touch of nature laced with human nature. -Evie Ivy, author of The First Woman Who Danced and…
A chapbook collection of essays and other non-fiction from one of Australia’s most prolific and well-known horror authors, drawing lessons on the craft of writing from his genre and forty…
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. Srange fungal…
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…
Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it. Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.
A horde of criminally good horror writers took a walk down the mean streets of crime.
Their task: to make your blood run cold, to scare you witless and to…
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The Jade Dragon protected Long-En for centuries - until it was taken.
The thrilling sequel to the best-selling Bound. Alex Caine is looking for direction and trying to build a new life with his recently acquired magical talents, and Kin girlfriend, Silhouette…
The past often catches up with you, but when it’s Alex Caine’s past the results can be deadly. Alex Caine has been suffering the weight of the world, and some…
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Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek.
Editor: Alan Baxter
Damnation Games is a smart and scary anthology of crime and mystery stories all with a supernatural or horror bent. From heists interrupted by ghosts and gangster organisations infiltrated by…
Red Lagoe
The very dust of the stars' explosive pasts traveled lightyears across the unknown, and now that dust pulses through our veins, drawing our eyes up, back to our origins. Since…
The debut story collection by award-winning Australian dark fantasy writer Alan Baxter. 19 stories, 3 original to the collection. A sweeping collection of horror and dark fantasy stories, packed with…
David Wood,Alan Baxter
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…
The world’s greatest theme park has a new main attraction!
When on old friend calls for help, Sam Aston returns to the home town he tried to leave behind. It…
When Rose Black’s sister goes missing, she once again calls upon Jake Crowley for help. The search takes them on a twisting journey, where danger lies at every turn. From…
Alan Baxter,David Wood
Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in a historic New York City cemetery make a gruesome discovery: skeletal remains, each with a hole in the skull in the exact same location…
James Alan Vincent
Baxter had a choice to make. Pay back the GBP200.000 to the gangster he owed the money to within seven days, or he and his partner Angela would die a…
Alan Clifford
A biographical and theological evaluation of the English Puritan Richard Baxter (1615-91)
An evaluation of the English Puritan Richard Baxter (1615-91).
Alan Argent
The Richard Baxter treatises are here catalogued for the first time with clear summaries of their content, affording rich opportunities for research.
Eloina Marquez
A Cuban woman writes Spanish poems about her growing up in pre-Castro as well as in the present Castro regime. Most poems detail her life on a rural farm with…
Seanan McGuire,Alan Baxter
16 Journeys on the Dark Streets of Urban Fantasy. Original stories by Seanan McGuire, Joanne Anderton, Alan Baxter, Nathan Burrage, Dirk Flinthart, Rebecca Fung, Stephanie Gunn, Kelly Hoolihan, Kathleen Jennings…
Amanda J Spedding
SNAFU: Punk'd holds eighteen tales from some of the best authors working in action-horror today, with a slant towards cyberpunk, steampunk, biopunk, and other punk sub-genres you may or may…
Join the military, they said.
See far-flung worlds, they said.
Meet interesting creatures, and kill them all.
Soldiers fighting aliens in unforgiving landscapes, where every breath could be their last.
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David Wood (University of Sheffield UK),Alan Baxter
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…
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…
C., Baxter Kruger
Jesus Christ is not a theoretical idea or a mere concept far removed from our human experience. In Across All Worlds, Baxter Kruger brings us face to face with the…
Richard Baxter,Alan C Clifford
The book provides an introduction to the legacy of the eminent Puritan Richard Baxter (1615-91). Presenting two of his shorter publications, Alan Clifford encourages the reader to discover the pastoral…
David A Bossert
Claude Coats: Walt Disney’s Imagineer-The Making of Disneyland: From Toad Hall to the Haunted Mansion and Beyond is the story of artist and designer Claude Coats who, for more than…
This volume examines the work of ten sociologists who have been forgotten or neglected within contemporary sociology. Each chapter examines one of these marginalized scholars including a brief biographical sketch…
