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Kim Paffenroth

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born

Syosset, NY, The United States

gender

male

website

http://gotld.blogspot.com

genre

Horror, Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Melville, Flannery O'Connor, Dostoevsky, Poe, Hawthorne

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February 2008

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I am a professor of religious studies, and the author of several books on the Bible and theology. I grew up in New York, Virginia, and New Mexico. I attended St. John's College, Annapolis, MD (BA, 1988), Harvard Divinity School (MTS, 1990), and the University of Notre Dame (PhD, 1995). I live in upstate New York with my wife and two wonderful kids. In the horror genre, I have written Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth (Baylor, 2006) - WINNER, 2006 Bram Stoker Award; Dying to Live: A Novel of Life among the Undead (Permuted Press, 2007); Orpheus and the Pearl(Magus Press, 2008); and Dying to Live: Life Sentence(Permuted Press, 2008).

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Average rating: 3.75 · 1,780 ratings · 237 reviews · 26 distinct works

	Dying to Live 3.72 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Dying to Live: Life Sentence 3.86 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth 3.77 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The World Is Dead 3.99 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Dying to Live: Last Rites 3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Valley of the Dead: The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Orpheus and the Pearl 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thin Them Out 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Judas: Images Of The Lost Disciple 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	Heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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