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Israel Finn

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The United States

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Horror, Suspense, Fantasy

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King, McCammon, Koontz, Matheson, Bradbury, Finney, among others.

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December 2015

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Israel Finn is the author of Dreaming At the Top of My Lungs, and a winner of the 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition.

He is a horror, suspense, and speculative fiction writer who's had a life-long love affair with books, weaned on the likes of Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and Richard Matheson, and later discovering Robert McCammon, Dean Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Dan Simmons, Ramsey Campbell, and Stephen King, as well as several others.

Israel lives in southern California.

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	Dreaming At the Top of My Lungs 4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings — 5 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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	Collected Christmas Horror Shorts by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), C.S. Anderson (Goodreads Author) , Michael A. Arnzen (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Unnerving Magazine Issue #4: Extended Halloween Edition by Eddie Generous (Editor), Max Booth III (Goodreads Author) , Dustin LaValley 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Darkness, Delight: Masters of Midnight (Volume 1) by Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author), Andrew Lennon (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Evans Light (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 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
	Deadfall Lane by K.G. Arndell, Israel Finn (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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
	Stones by K.G. Arndell, Israel Finn (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 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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Wanderers

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Original and engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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