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Daniel Stalter

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Daniel is a storyteller and a comic book writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He launched his first series Dream Crasher in 2015 with artist and frequent collaborator Reed Olsen. They have since published 4 of the 12 planned chapters, and have run two successful Kickstarter Campaigns. The first collected edition of the series was released in the summer of 2018. He also writes for the Geeks OUT blog and is an organizing member of the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers.

As a child, Daniel filled countless notebooks with stories. Many of them were about the planet Dogtopia, and more than a few were RL Stine inspired knock-offs. The passion for storytelling continued in the form of film in his high school and college years, where he also discovered s ...more

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HOW TO KILL A MONSTER

Goosebumps #46:
How to Kill a Monster© 1996 by Parachute Press. Cover Art by Tim Jacobus.

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How to Kill a Monster was a bit of a mess, so let me start with what I liked. I liked that the titular Monster showed up early and was particularly grotesque. I also thought Gretchen and Clark were solid characters, not to mention I believe they’re the first step siblings to appear in the Go

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	Dream Crasher, Volume 1 (Dream Crasher #1-4) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	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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	Dream Crasher #3: Welcome Home (Dream Crasher #3) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Dream Crasher #4: Dearest, the Shadows (Dream Crasher #4) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Dream Crasher #2: The Land Vomits Ghosts (Dream Crasher #2) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Dream Crasher #5: The Dreamer's Parasite (Dream Crasher #5) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019	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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