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Bob Pastorella

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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

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Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Kathe Koja, Ramsey Campbell, James Ellroy,...more

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June 2010

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Bob Pastorella lives in Southeast Texas. He’s published with Outsider Writers Collective, Thunderdome, Nefarious Muse, Troubadour 21, and his short story “To Watch Is Madness” is featured in The Zombist: Undead Western Tales Anthology. Bob is also featured in Warmed And Bound: A Velvet Anthology. He is currently working on a vampire/noir novel. You can visit Bob at bobpastorella.com.

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Bob Pastorella's Blog

Happy Medium Gets All The Girls.

Yeah, yeah yeah…I’ve been busy, so give me a break.

After a long hiatus, sabbatical, whatever you want to call it, I’m back for 2013. I want to try to use my personal slice of the interweb to chronicle, journal, whatever, but I’m not going to promise that I’ll be posting regularly or anything. There are three things that could happen here:

1. You won’t see another post from me for a while.

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Bob Pastorella's Books

Average rating: 4.33 · 110 ratings · 26 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	To Watch is Madness 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology by Pela Via (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steve Erickson (Foreword), Craig Clevenger (Goodreads Author) 4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words by Michael Paul Gonzalez (Goodreads Author), Bob Pastorella (Goodreads Author), Simon West-Bulford (Goodreads Author) 4.77 of 5 stars 4.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3)

by James Ellroy

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Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes, #1)

by Peter Clines (Goodreads Author)

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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Bob Pastorella wants to read The Sound of Loneliness by Craig Wallwork (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Bob Pastorella entered a giveaway The Sound of Loneliness by Craig Wallwork (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Bob Pastorella rated a book 5 of 5 stars Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones read in June, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 25, 2012 02:08pm
Bob Pastorella liked Gordon's review of Growing Up Dead in Texas: " Everyone will tell you they don't know what's real versus fabricated in this memoir. Even the author does a lot of backtracking and correcting and apologizing, to protect the innocent and the not-so. To reframe scenes from another viewpoint with m... " Read more of this review »
Jun 06, 2012 09:23pm · see review
Bob Pastorella joined the group Surreal Grotesque Magazine
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Bob Pastorella wants to read Equations of Life (Samuil Petrovitch, #1) by Simon Morden	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Apr 30, 2012 07:38am
Bob Pastorella is on page 601 of 656 of Blood's a Rover: I will finish this book, but it's the last of the series, and I just don't want it to end, so I'm holding on for as long as I can. Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3) by James Ellroy progress:	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Bob Pastorella voted for 1 books on the list Best Cover Art 2011 (Non-YA) Vote on this list »
Apr 15, 2012 02:33pm · like
Bob Pastorella made a comment on Bob's vote for Best Historical Fiction in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards "Funny thing is, I haven't read it myself, just heard great things about the book. Definitely will be reading it soon."
Nov 29, 2011 06:33pm