Lee Murray

• Apr-2015
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A desperate odyssey through a dystopic futureMika Tāura arrives in New York in the middle of a storm, where she accidentally kills a motorist and lands herself with an injured child. What’s more, she’s missed her rendezvous. Stan has problems of...

• Feb-2016
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AWARD: This story, by Lee Murray won the 'short story award' at the Sir Julius Vogel (SJV) awards in New Zealand in 2016.Whitney is a thief. A good one. Like a mosquito she comes in quietly, first anaesthetising, then feeding, and finally leaving bef...

• Apr-2016
• / Thriller
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Winner, 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel
When New Zealand Defense Force Sergeant Taine McKenna and his squad are tasked with escorting a bunch of civilian contractors into Te Urewera National Park, it seems a strange job for the ...

• Jun-2016
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Step up, as close as you dare…

…to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch across balmy summer nights,

at the edge of town, where the cell phone coverage is decidedly dodgy,

at the edge of space, where a Mimbinus...

• Aug-2018
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On leave, and out of his head with boredom, NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna joins biologist Jules Asher, on a Conservation Department deer culling expedition to New Zealand’s southernmost national park, where soaring peaks give way to valleys gouged fr...

• Dec-2018
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Laying low after a furore in the Urewera ranges, NZDF Sergeant Taine McKenna accompanies girlfriend Jules Ashes to France, where something ancient and evil has left its kill on the cobbles of La Ferté-Bernard. The terrified villagers have seen it be...

• Feb-2019
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No longer content to rumble in anger, the great mountain warriors of New Zealand’s central plateau, the Kāhui Tupua, are preparing again for battle. At least, that’s how the Māori elders tell it. The nation’s leaders scoff at the danger. That...

• Oct-2019
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Chaos' latest game is positively epic. Just look at the trailer: the hero Bastion Axestone striding through the city streets, fireballs exploding around him and zombies staggering in his wake. Seb can't wait to play it. He downloads the works. Explos...

• Oct-2019
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This is the third anthology of Halloween stories from the pumpkin-master himself, the Trickster! Our tricky theme this year 'The Seven Deadly Sins' means for each of the 7 sins, we've gathered a crop of 7 spooky stories of 700 words each, giving you ...

• Jul-2020
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In a collection inspired by the mythologies of Europe, China, and her beloved Aotearoa-New Zealand, four-time Bram Stoker Award®-winner Lee Murray twists and subverts ancient themes, stitching new creatures from blood and bone, hiding them in sof...

• Nov-2020
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The 15th issue of the official magazine of the Australasian Horror Writers Association, edited by Lee Murray, containing fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Featuring: The Bone Fairy by Martin LivingsThe Reaping by Jay CaselbergCarbon Copy Consumables b...

• 2021
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• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush.Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zeal...

• Mar-2025
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Taking some R&R at the site of the historic Lake Tarawera eruption, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and Private Eddie 'Lefty' Wright are plunged into a labyrinthine hell beneath the lake's surface....

• Apr-2025
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• May-2025
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• Jun-2025
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Join New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and his comrades as they battle legendary creatures and ancient evil in a land where even the terrain conspires against them in this thrilling collection of dark short stories by multiple Bram Stoker Award...

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Daily Star war correspondent Cassius Smythe is off to the Dardanelles to report on the Allied campaign. That is, if only the War Office will let him tell the truth. But after months in the trenches at Anzac Cove, Smythe learns that it isn't just...