Alan Baxter
Author of dark weird horror and fantasy.
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Alan Baxter is a British-Australian author who writes supernatural thrillers and urban horror, rides a motorcycle and loves his dogs. He also teaches Kung Fu. He lives among dairy paddocks on the beautiful south coast of NSW, Australia, with his wife, son, dogs and cat. 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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Declan's Plan
Published Mar 18, 2020 · 5,081 words (19 minutes) · 258 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 · 5 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 · 125 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) · 1 like · 228 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) · 1 like · 111 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 · 71 views
A short fantasy.
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HIDDEN CITY (first 2 chapters)
Published Mar 28, 2019 · 2,088 words (8 minutes) · 156 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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The Seven Garages of Kevin Simpson
Published Dec 27, 2018 · 3,653 words (14 minutes) · 1 like · 101 views
A podcast original at Pseudopod back in 2011, here's the full text of the story. A horror yarn about the things we're left, the legacies of the past, and possible futures we may not have chosen for ourselves.
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Mirrorwalk
Published Nov 21, 2018 · 4,635 words (17 minutes) · 69 views
Fantasy Horror Mystery Strange
A young man finds a mysterious scroll after his grandfather dies. The scroll unlocks supernatural secrets, but it's magic not to be fooled with. Originally published in Murky Depths Magazine, issue 16, April 2011.
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