'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)