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DARK RITE

About Alan Baxter

Alan Baxter is a multi-award-winning British-Australian author of horror, supernatural thrillers, and dark fantasy. He’s also a martial arts expert, a whisky-soaked swear monkey, and dog lover. He creates dark, weird stories among dairy paddocks on the beautiful south coast of NSW, Australia, where he lives with his wife, son, and hound. The author of over twenty books including novels, novellas, and two short story collections – so far – you can find him online at www.alanbaxter.com.au or on Twitter @AlanBaxter and Facebook. Feel free to tell him what you think. About anything.

PRAISE FOR ALAN BAXTER

“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 The Cabin at the End of the World

“Step into the ring with Alan Baxter, I dare you. He writes with the grace, precision, and swift brutality of a prizefighter.”

– Christopher Golden, NYT bestselling author of Ararat and The Pandora Room

“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

“…if Stephen King and Jim Butcher ever had a love child then it would be Alan Baxter.”

– Smash Dragons

“Baxter draws you along a knife’s edge of tension from the first page to the last, leaving your heart thumping and sweat on your brow.”

– Midwest Book Review

Copyright

This novella collection remains the copyright of the author. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author except for brief quotations used for promotion or in reviews. This collection is a work of fiction. Any reference to historical events, real people or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE GULP

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Copyright © 2021 Alan Baxter

Cover Art “Warning Sign” (oil on canvas) © 2012 Halinka Orszulok

Cover Design © Alan Baxter

Edited by Mallory Wiper

Internal layout by David Wood

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Alan Baxter

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