Alan Baxter
Author of dark weird horror and fantasy.
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Alan Baxter is a British-Australian author who writes horror, dark fantasy, and supernatural thrillers, rides a motorcycle and loves his dog. He also teaches Kung Fu. He lives among dairy paddocks on the beautiful south coast of NSW, Australia with his wife and son. He’s the multi-award-winning author of several novels and around eighty short stories and novellas. So far. Read extracts from his novels, novellas, and find free short stories at his website – www.warriorscribe.com – or find him on Twitter @AlanBaxter and Facebook, and feel free to tell him what you think. About anything.
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A Star Has Died
Published May 18, 2020 · 4,124 words (15 minutes) · 1 like · 511 views
Fantasy Horror Mystery crime Alex Caine
A Silhouette short story, set in the 80s, long before she met Alex Caine. London gangsters and a brutal murder give Silhouette a mystery to sink her teeth into. This story was originally written for an anthology called Side Quests, where authors were to write short stories with characters from their existing series. Sadly, the anthology fell through, so I'm publishing the story here. This is the first time it's been seen anywhere.
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Deep Sea Fishing
Published May 14, 2020 · 3,843 words (14 minutes) · 2 likes · 601 views
Two men out fishing in the deep open catch something they would never have imagined possible.
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Upon A Distant Shore
Published Apr 26, 2020 · 4,835 words (18 minutes) · 1 like · 457 views
Horror Science Fiction first contact
A science-fiction horror story originally published in Dimension6, issue 2 (ed. Keith Stevenson, 4th July 2014). When a strange vessel drifts into Earth orbit, one astronaut aboard the ISS gets to make history as the first human to make contact with it.
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Declan's Plan
Published Mar 18, 2020 · 5,081 words (19 minutes) · 2 likes · 678 views
Horror Science Fiction post-apocalyptic apocalyptic Australia
This story was the co-winner of the Wily Writers Short Story Contest in 2011. I'm reprinting it here for free as a bit of Australian post-apocalyptic fiction seems relevant right about now.
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On A Crooked Leg Lightly
Published Feb 25, 2020 · 4,121 words (15 minutes) · 2 likes · 6 views
Historical fantasy short story, originally published in Dreaming of Djinn from Ticonderoga Publications.
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Autumn of the Greatest
Published Aug 29, 2019 · 3,693 words (14 minutes) · 2 likes · 127 views
Fantasy Humor Satire Science Fiction superhero
An aging ex-supervillain laments the state of supervillainy in the modern world with his carer.
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Cephalopoda Obsessia
Published Aug 1, 2019 · 4,102 words (15 minutes) · 2 likes · 402 views
Fantasy Horror Science Fiction kraken
This story is a combined homage to two different myths. It’s a blending of the classic kraken legend and the ever-popular Cthulhu mythos. First published in Bloodstones anthology (ed. Amanda Pillar, Ticonderoga Publications, October 2012).
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Punishment of the Sun
Published May 1, 2019 · 3,049 words (12 minutes) · 2 likes · 287 views
Fantasy Horror vampire australian
A horror story. Originally published in the Dead Red Heart anthology (ed. Russell B Farr, Ticonderoga Publications) in April 2011. This story subsequently garnered an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year #4 (Night Shade Books, 2012) and was on the Recommended Reading List in the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, 2011 (ed. Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, Ticonderoga Publications). It was subsequently reprinted in my award-winning collection, Crow Shine.
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Tiny Lives
Published Mar 28, 2019 · 1,616 words (6 minutes) · 1 like · 203 views
A short fantasy.
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HIDDEN CITY (first 2 chapters)
Published Mar 28, 2019 · 2,088 words (8 minutes) · 1 like · 315 views
Fantasy Horror Mystery dark fantasy weird
The first two chapters of my dark supernatural noir novel, HIDDEN CITY, published by Gryphonwood Press 2018. It's like The Dresden Files meets H P Lovecraft meets Raymond Chandler.
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