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Courtney Gould is the author of The Dead and the Dark, Where Echoes Die, and the forthcoming What the Woods Took. She writes books about queer girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a degree in Creative Writing and Publishing and now lives in Salem, OR where she continues to write love letters to small towns and haunted places.

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	The Dead and the Dark 3.92 avg rating — 10,626 ratings — published 2021 — 12 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
	What the Woods Took 3.85 avg rating — 5,464 ratings — published 2024 — 6 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
	The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror by Tori Bovalino (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alex Brown (Goodreads Author), Olivia Chadha (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 4,455 ratings — published 2022 — 8 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
	Where Echoes Die 3.57 avg rating — 2,125 ratings — published 2023 — 8 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
	The House Where Death Lives by Alex Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nova Ren Suma (Goodreads Author), Gina Chen (Goodreads Author) 3.46 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2024 — 6 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
	Until the Last Light Goes Out it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2026 — 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

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“Outside, there was a swarm of people who hated them. Under his feet, there was a darkness that crept into Brandon’s bones. But for a moment, he wasn’t alone. The shadows were quiet.
Now that he knew what it felt like to be loved, he could never go back.”
― Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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“The Dark is not a monster. It simply is.”
― Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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“She’s made of every bad thing that has happened to her, just like she’s made of every good thing. She’s made of every good thing before the woods and every good thing she found in its unyielding grip.”
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What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould (336 pp)

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Ghost Story by Peter Straub (567 pp)

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The Threshing Floor by Steph Nelson (292 pp)

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The Swarm by Andy Marino (512 pp)

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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (496 pp)

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message 1: by Bobbi

Aug 11, 2021 01:54PM

Courtney, Your old Auntie wants you to know.
Congratulations on your new book The Dead and the Dark ratings!
I can't wait till I can afford to buy it. I read a lot of books, but they are mostly hand me downs or Goodwill and Dollar Tree. A lack of cash will not keep me from reading.
You are setting a pace to becoming another Stephany King.

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