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After conquering the world’s alternative music scene, Adam Lavas has returned to Adelaide broken by fame’s hidden cost. Behind the roar of stadiums lies a long shadow - depression, addiction, and something far stranger has stalked him since childhood. Hoping to disappear from the public eye, Adam retreats to Meridian, an enigmatic mansion tucked deep within the foothills. But its quiet halls conceal more than refuge; they hide a doorway into a realm that defies human understanding. Across the country, acclaimed UFO researcher Alex Barnett has also vanished from the spotlight. A near-...

A claustrophobic supernatural horror novella from award-winning author Matthew Tait. At the height of a global pandemic, Lucas and Vanessa awake in darkness. They've been stolen from their lives and dumped inside Ashbrook Court – an abandoned social housing estate in Adelaide long since left to rot. As memories return and the body count rises, they begin to uncover the truth about Ashbrook Court. Something is waiting. Something that wants to hatch. INSECT KIN is a descent into isolation, madness, and infestation.

Fifteen years ago the affluent gated-community of Slander Hall was the setting of the largest mass suicide in U.S history, dozens of men and women committing the ultimate sacrifice and embracing the covenant of their leader to shed their bodies for a life in outer space. Now a modern ghost town, it boasts only the decaying and derelict phantoms of a withered populace. Cedar Jarrell, sole survivor of the holocaust that claimed so many, returns to the dark heart of Slander Hall on a final pilgrimage where not all who take the journey will survive …

Once a bustling school playing host to the elite of Cranston, Providence Place now sits completely abandoned; a derelict world of memories for the populace of Rhode Island. It’s also a place where people come from all over the country seeking their scares. People like Dillon Cook, a budding film-maker who decides to recruit four past pupils for his next independent film. A director with a taste for the tragic places of the world, Dillon sees Providence Place as the perfect backdrop for tragedy to unfold …

A famous house on the eastern seaboard, Oaklyn Castle has become even more notorious now a celebrity power couple calls it home. With a burgeoning family, Arabella Jaqus and Boyd Palmer have decided to raise their natural and adopted children in Palladian surrounds far from the furor of filmmaking. When Jaison Winters is summoned to the mansion, he views it as the job of a lifetime: a chance to redeem his flailing writing career by penning an accurate, in-depth biography of Arabella’s dynasty – a firsthand glimpse into a private world previously off-limits until now. But what Jaison ...

WINNER: 2020 AHWA Australian Shadows Awards, NOVEL Nick Wheeler’s subject matter has always been controversial. A venerated photographer motivated to capture the malign elements of human existence – suicide as illusion and artifice – his career is suddenly in tatters after a near-fatal work accident plunges him into a coma. A sleep paralysis victim, Nick’s descent into oblivion ushers him back to where it all began: winters spent in the rugged foothills of Deception Pass. It was here, among the secret grottos and old-growth forests, where ancient forces first showed their hand: ...

Against their mother’s wishes, brothers Henry and Jacob are on their way to the new horror museum. A night jaunt through the twisting thoroughfares of Cyclone Cove. Its opening shrouded in secrecy, no one quite knows anything beyond its enigmatic name. Will it be a museum of strange oddities? Perhaps an exhibition of movie memorabilia? As midnight nears, the proprietor unveils more than the boys ever expected …

A journey of appraisal. Critiques of dark and speculative fiction spanning a decade. Over one hundred essays that will take you into the dark maw of modern horror in both literature and contemporary cinema.

Horror writer Michael Richards is disturbed from his daily grind by blood dripping from the ceiling, which steadily worsens. Soon, the blood becomes Michael's personal metaphor in a battle of denial. When a compulsive gambler is forced to seek out a loan shark rooted in myth, he discovers the dark saviour teaches more to his pupils than deliverance from debt. Trapped within a room of sinister dolls, an average man is forced to confront his very worst fears ... and quickly learns staring into the abyss does not grant you a reprieve from them. Interweaving horror into socially relevant ...

Half a world away from the concert arenas of Europe and the United States, Adam Lavas has finally returned home. After gaining momentum in the alternative music scene from an early age, his band Solid State became a global sensation known throughout every continent. Yet fame has a price – an expense that commercial and critical success cannot hope to balm. For in the corridors of the creative heart, dark things have always lurked – taking the forms of depression, alcohol addiction ... and some things even worse. So when Adam discovers a mansion named Meridian hidden within the foothills...

Once a popular scholar in UFO circles, world-renowned writer Alex Barnett has retreated from the public-eye. After a near-brush with death years previous on a remote outback station, Alex has been gifted (or cursed) with numinous abilities that ultimately bring harm to those he loves the most. But soon his withdrawal is hampered by a new mystery: the whereabouts of Adam Lavas. Sensing a kinship with the failed musician (and believing Adam to be more than human), Alex journeys to the secret mansion known as Meridian in the foothills of Adelaide, there to discover an ally whose true form is ...

The podcast that takes comedy films seriously. Exploring 125 years of comedy on film, one year at a time, to see what we can learn about comedy, film, and ourselves.

The First Apocalypse they named it, a title that didn’t mean anything to the survivors … In a war ravaged desert world, giant strongholds have arisen from the dust; cathedrals built to house a new world order of decadent tribes. While order survives, it has come at terrible cost, fueled by the blood of innocents who are butchered as resource … Yet there is hope. Once an orphan, a savior will soon rise. A Goddess named Teisha, whose final battle has just begun.

At thirty four years of age, dark fiction scribe Micha Tudor has finally had enough trying to eke out a living as an author. Suicide, that eternal taboo of man, could potentially provide an escape hatch for an exhausted spirit seeking a reset button. But when Micha awakens in a world of his own making - a world straight from the pages of his new novel - he soon discovers the afterlife is far from an escape hatch or even oblivion. For in Hadley Grove, monsters walk the streets. Towering creatures composed of mercury who seem tied to the town’s ancient church brooding above the oceanic ...