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Tom Over is a reptilian limbic system currently manipulating a hominid cortex somewhere in Manchester, UK. The Comfort Zone and Other Safe Spaces is his first book. He is not on Twitter.

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	Shallow Waters, Vol. 1 by Joe Mynhardt (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author), Tracy Fahey (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 186 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
	The Comfort Zone and Other Safe Spaces 4.48 avg rating — 64 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
	Myopiatropolis 4.26 avg rating — 34 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
	Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg by Chris Kelso (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Leo Rice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jonathan Greenaway 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Horror Sleaze Trash: Prose in Poor Taste Vol. 2 by Arthur Graham (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joseph Ridgwell, Mick Rose 4.63 avg rating — 16 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
	Stories Only A Mother Could Love by Cody Sexton, G.C. McKay (Goodreads Author), Tom Over (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 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
	Look At Our Holes: An Anthology of Voids & Orifices by Juan Valencia (Editor, Contributor), Josh Simmons (Contributor), Brendan Vidito (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2025	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
	GRUESOME by Aphotic Realm, Damascus Mincemeyer, Joe Koch (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 8 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
	The Bumper Book of British Bizarro by British Bizarro Community, Die Booth (Goodreads Author), LoFi Guy (Artist) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Fucked Up Stories to Read in the Daytime by Ira Rat (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Richard (Goodreads Author), Madeleine Swann (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 8 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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The Shining (The Shining, #1)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Where Furnaces Burn

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Tom Over and 19 other people liked Seb's review of Blasted: "I've seen many plays, including darker ones (even though it's been years I've been to the theater to see adult plays, which I miss - children ones I still do). I've never encountered anything as dark as this play. Usually, violence and horror take form" Read more of this review »
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Tom Over and 8 other people liked Shawn's review of Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic): "Okay so maybe this is Thompson taking another stab at Lou, the protagonist from The Killer Inside Me, being a small southern town sheriff plays dumb and does as little police work as possible but is really sharp as a tack. But it's more cynical by a " Read more of this review »
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Tom Over and 7 other people liked Bill Hsu's review of Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: "I loved Ha's "Alabama Circus Punk" (in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, and was very excited to come across this. The stories I've read are a kind of dark, open-ended science fiction that address real issues in our messy, broken world; the" Read more of this review »
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