Bøker av Stefan Taylor

When Rose is arrested for assaulting a girl at her high school, the eighteen year old is given one last chance to turn her life around. Sentenced to community service at a local boxing gym, she meets Cathy, a rough, old school trainer, who reluctantly takes the wayward teen under her wing. For Ila, it seems everyday she deals with her brother's troubles with the law, her father's depression and her mother's constant pressure to succeed in her studies. But she has one escape from the struggles of living up to her immigrant parent's expectations, martial arts. It is her passion and her path. The two are about to embark on a journey that will ultimately bring them together and entwine their lives. The world is their battleground, and life is their opponent.

'What lies beyond the boundary fence, is something that should be left well alone.'The new housing estate, Golden Pastures, is a quiet place with quiet streets, and quiet people.For fourteen-year-old Brody Webb and his struggling parents, it's a new start, and a second chance at making their family work. But when Brody's dad is laid off and his mother is forced to work long hours, things return to the way they have always been. For Brody, it's a lonely life spent riding his bike and dodging his drunken father.That is until Brody meets Todd, Zoe and Mike. Three kids that become the closest friends he's ever had.However, beyond the estate's boundary fence, deep in the surrounding Bushland, a sinister presence is awakening. Something that stalks the bush at night, something that needs to feed. And following the disappearance of one of his friends, Brody must find the courage to venture deep into the bush, and confront an old evil that has been waiting years to rise up, and have its revenge on the world.

On a summer night, in a forgotten town, a storm is brewing…It was supposed to be a quick stop for a bite to eat, on their journey to a new life. But when Sisters Jordan, Lilly and their older brother Owen, arrive in the town of Barnsford, they soon find themselves at the mercy of malevolent forces beyond their understanding. Trapped in the town by a fierce storm, and with nowhere to run, the siblings are not just fighting for their lives; they are fighting for their souls as well!

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.stefantaylor.com.au | simonjgreen.comStefan 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 HubSimon 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.