Cirrus@Austlit

'Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.

'The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.

'A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there.

'Teenage siblings try to cover up the death of their mother, but their plans go drastically awry.

'A rock band invite four backpackers to a party at their house, where things get dangerously out of hand.

'A young man loses a drug shipment and his boss gives him 48 hours to make good on his mistake.

'Under the blinking eye of the old lighthouse, a rock fisher makes the strangest catch of his life.

'Five novellas. Five descents into darkness.

'Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Enjoy four spine-chilling stories from the pen of Australia's award-winning master of literary darkness, along with the chance to sample six of his longer works.

'Featuring one full novella ("Out On A Rim" from The Gulp), three entire short stories ("Crow Shine" from Crow Shine, "Simulacrum of Hope" from Served Cold, and "The Normandy Curse"), plus the opening chapters of six longer books: Devouring Dark (a powerful tale of crime and death), Hidden City (When the city is sick, everyone suffers), Bound (Alex Caine, a fighter by trade, is drawn into a world he never knew existed), Manifest Recall (Following a psychotic break, Eli Carver finds himself on the run, behind the wheel of a car that's not his own, in the company of a terrified woman he doesn't know), Primordial (Sometimes, the legends are true), and Blood Codex (An ancient order. A deadly conspiracy. A race against time).'(Publication summary)