48 to Go single work   novella   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 48 to Go
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'A young man loses a drug shipment and his boss gives him 48 hours to make good on his mistake.'

Source: Back-cover blurb.

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    y separately published work icon The Gulp Alan Baxter , Australia : 13th Dragon Books , 2021 21074066 2021 selected work novella horror

    '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.

    Australia : 13th Dragon Books , 2021
    pg. 193-254
Last amended 7 Jun 2022 09:39:57
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