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'Collected together for the first time ever, these sixteen provocative and intensely chilling tales by multi-award-winning-author Alan Baxter venture into the depths of the darkest and most shadowy places where unspeakable horrors are the predators and we the willing prey.
'Prepare for an always terrifying, frequently heartbreaking journey in multiple stages, each piece echoing Baxter's unique voice that effortlessly blends horror, fantasy and the weird, cementing his place as a modern master of the dark fantastique, and resulting in an unforgettable volume of fiction.' (Publication summary)
Contents
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Served Cold,
single work
short story
'Jonathan swallowed, but the lump in his throat remained. You're twelve, he told himself. Not some snivelling child. That's what his stepdad called him, on a good day. He tried to ignore the sensation of snakes swimming in his stomach and glanced back along the path barely visible through overgrown dry grass. The three older boys in the street gestured for him to go on. One flapped his arms like chicken wings.' (Introduction)
- Exposure Compensation, single work short story horror
- Exquisite, single work short story
- Crossroads and Carousels, single work short story
- Simulacrum of Hope, single work short story horror
- The Goodbye Message, single work short story
- The Ocean Hushed the Stones, single work short story
- Crying Demon, single work short story fantasy
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In Vaulted Halls Entombed,
single work
novella
science fiction
Soldiers tracking a terrorist through Kandahar stumble across an ancient horror deep underground.
- Her Grief in My Halls, single work short story
- They All Come through London in the End, single work short story horror
- How Father Bryant Saw the Light, single work short story horror
- Waters Strangely Clear, single work short story horror
- Dream Shadow, single work short story horror
- Ways to Live and Die, single work short story
- Yellowheart, single work novella horror
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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[Review] Served Cold
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 137 2021;
— Review of Served Cold 2019 selected work short story
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[Review] Served Cold
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 137 2021;
— Review of Served Cold 2019 selected work short story