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Alan Loewen

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in Easthampton, NY, The United States

November 01, 1954

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Born in 1954 in Easthampton, New York, Alan Loewen descends from a long line of German Mennonite farmers on his father’s side and Episcopalian whalers and fishermen on his mother’s. That unusual heritage—part rural simplicity, part saltwater folklore—still echoes through his fiction today.

An avid reader from childhood, Loewen devoured fantasy, science fiction, mythology, and strange tales at every opportunity. Among the works that most deeply shaped his imagination are H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, and the writings of C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Garner, and Robert Holdstock.

At heart, Loewen considers himself first and foremost a storyteller. His goal is not to lecture, preach, o ...more

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	Opal Wine 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Dark Dreams and Darker Visions: Ten Stories of Dark Fantasy 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Come Into My Cellar: Darker Tales From A Cerebral Vault 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Seven Sisters 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Humor Most Odd: The Collected Silliness of Alan Loewen 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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THE MONSTER OF BLACKWOOD MANOR: A Gothic Dark Romance

by E. V. Blackwood

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THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF THE LISTS OF MYTHICAL CREATURES: Great Big Lists - Book 3 (THE GREAT BIG LIST BOOKS)

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Save the Cat!® Writes Horror: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Monster in the House Stories

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Alan Loewen rated a book really liked it Wishwood (Westwood #1) by E.B. Wheeler (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
An Excellent Historical Gothic Romance The heroine is not a helpless waif, but a young woman of wit and wisdom dealing with conniving enemies and men too passive to be of any help. Slowly she builds a cadre of allies to help her. This reviewer does not ...more
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A Fun Read Imagine Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, or the best of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but with Russian intrigue and lots of sex. Fortunately, the latter is only referenced and not blow-by-blow porn, so the work is still readable as a satisfying ...more
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Alan Loewen rated a book really liked it The Grinning Man: The Eerie Exhibits Collection by Victoria Williamson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
Predictable, But Entertaining Amy is a seven-year-old with a long-suffering mother and a father who defines peevish, prudish selfishness. Evidently, he’s spent the last 15 years writing a book on ancient Egypt ignoring all family duties. This is reso ...more
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A Very Good Dark Fantasy Romance If you like your stories resolved with every I dotted and every T crossed, you will be disappointed. But if you like your stories dripping with mystery and solidly mixed with enchantment and wonder, then here you go. A ...more
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An Eerie Tale of … Revenge? This is a difficult story to review without giving away spoilers, but the gist of it is Thelma, a woman scorned and looked down on all her life has done something terrible in revenge … and it gets worse. What makes the story ...more
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A Bizarre Short Story Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery On Mars under a massive bio dome, a small village exists centered around chickens and the Conclave, an annual celebration of life under the dome and a personality contest of the most a ...more
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A Tragic Tale of Cosmic Horror Single mother Julie works in a museum where she conducts short educational talks about fossils and shells. Everybody is familiar with the effect of putting a shell to one’s ear and “hearing the ocean.” But what if this on ...more
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