A collection of short horror stories you can rip through in hours, but will haunt you for days.

Demons that draw on a family’s misery. The violent deaths of clients from hell. Serial killers and cursed cures that don’t turn out how you’d expect. Stefan Taylor builds dark worlds full of classic tension and fear. Simon J Green weaves visually rich tales of carnage and humour. Together, they bring you previously published work alongside original stories designed to scare, shock, and make you feel sick.

Features extended stories from the short films The Darkness and Trapper Asylum, available on YouTube.

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Stefan is a Melbourne writer exploring tense, atmospheric worlds of familial pain. His debut young adult horror novella Beyond the Boundary Fence, available on Amazon, was called “a chilling read” that “evokes solitary loneliness.” Stefan has worked professionally as an actor or writer in film, television, stage and novels for over a decade. He has appeared in TV shows Underbelly, Winners & Losers and Gallipoli, and wrote and co-hosted the Stefan and Craig show on Triple M Brisbane. His one-man shows featuring classic horror stories received rave reviews in the 2013 and 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival, “The audience was breathless” — The Age “Utterly inspired…miss it at your peril!” — Arts Hub

Simon J Green is a Melbourne writer telling stories steeped in the joy of genre. Working in science fiction, horror and comedy, he uses tropes of the fantastic to blow up our social anxieties. Living with cystic fibrosis, he feels it's his responsibility to tell stories that represent the underrepresented. Simon is driven by telling dangerously fun stories readers will love. Simon works as a communications strategist and runs his own production company The X Gene. Among his hundreds of clients, he has created content for Hewlett Packard, ANZ, Nintendo, L'Oreal and Arts Centre Melbourne.

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