Shadow Bites — Alan Baxter

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, and The Normandy Curse), plus the opening chapters of six longer books: Devouring Dark (a powerful tale of crime and death), Hidden City (When the city is sick, everyone suffers), Bound (Alex Caine, a fighter by trade, is drawn into a world he never knew existed), Manifest Recall (Following a psychotic break, Eli Carver finds himself on the run, behind the wheel of a car that's not his own, in the company of a terrified woman he doesn't know), Primordial (Sometimes, the legends are true), and Blood Codex (An ancient order. A deadly conspiracy. A race against time).Alan Baxter is Australia's master of literary darkness. – This Is Horror …if Stephen King and Jim Butcher ever had a love child then it would be Alan Baxter. – Smash DragonsAlan Baxter can take horror from gonzo to heartbreaking in an instant. Good stuff… Alan Baxter can write like a m***********. – Gail Simone, best-selling author of DC's Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, and more Alan Baxter is an accomplished storyteller who ably evokes magic and menace. – Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase Baxter delivers the horror goods. – Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World Alan Baxter is one of the best horror writers in the business. – Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Sour Candy Step into the ring with Alan Baxter, I dare you. He writes with the grace, precision, and swift brutality of a prizefighter. – Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and The Pandora Room Alan Baxter delivers a heady mix of magic, monsters and bloody fights to the death. Nobody does kick-ass brutality like Baxter. – Greig Beck, Internationally bestselling author Alan Baxter's fiction is dark, disturbing, hard-hitting and heart-breakingly honest. He reflects on worlds known and unknown with compassion, and demonstrates an almost second-sight into human behaviour. — Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award-winner and author of The Grief Hole …fantastic storytelling in the vein of Neil Gaiman or Alan Moore, but with a merciless black streak… – Spooktapes Alan's work is reminiscent of that of Clive Barker and Jim C. Hines, but with a unique flavour all of its own. – Angela Slatter, World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Aurealis Award winner