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Carson Winter

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Carson Winter is an award-winning author, punker, and raw nerve. He's written two novels, The Psychographist and A Spectre Is Haunting Greentree. His short fiction has appeared in over twenty publications, including Apex, Vastarien, and Chthonic Matter Quarterly. He lives in Saint Paul, MN. ...more

Average rating: 4.0 · 1,763 ratings · 657 reviews · 38 distinct worksSimilar authors
Soft Targets

4.22 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions
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The Psychographist

3.78 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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A Spectre is Haunting Green...

3.82 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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Split Scream Volume One

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4.09 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions
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Reunion Special: A Novella

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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Portraits of Decay

4.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions
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The Corpse Priest

4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions
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A Cold Wind in Autumn

4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2024
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The Ruins by Scott        Smith
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Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Zone One
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What ZONE ONE does so well isn't a reinvention of the zombie story, but an elevation. Whitehead's novel has much of what you'd expect from a post-apocalyptic living dead nightmare, but it's continually innovated with precise observations and excellen ...more
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The Organization is Here to Support You by Charlene Elsby
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Hilarious weird fiction novella with lots of absurdity and mundane corporate horror. This was my first read by Elsby, but I'll most definitely be checking out more. ...more
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Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner
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Kane is an interesting anti-hero, filled with the knowledge of eons, but also possessive and somewhat of a scoundrel. The stories here offer multiple angles of the dark sorcerer in different contexts, each of which paints a more complete picture of h ...more
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The Cipher by Kathe Koja
"This ain't a book for the faint-hearted. It's teeming with nasty people, doing nasty things. Affectless drifters with nothing to lose finding new things to shuck themselves of. These nasty people are also filthy. There's not a paragraph that goes by " Read more of this review »
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Reef Mind by Hazel Zorn
Reef Mind
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Excellent, punchy tale of apocalyptic eco-horror, with interesting themes challenging anthropocentric perspective.

Zorn's REEF MIND reads almost like a eulogy for the human race, and a welcome to what comes after.
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
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Not bad, but didn't inspire immediate devotion to Abercrombie or his world. Some excellent character writing. I was expecting something much darker though.

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King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
King of Ashes
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A crime thriller mish-mash of Breaking Bad, Yojimbo, and The Godfather. Not terrible, with some interesting characters and appropriately morbid scenes, but what’s familiar feels too familiar.
The Corpse Priest by Carson Winter
"Just vibes, no lore.

To describe a book as such seems impolite. To describe a fantasy book as such seems downright insulting. But it’s not an insult. I promise. It’s anything but, and also the first thing that comes to mind when I think of The Corpse" Read more of this review »
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The Corpse Priest by Carson Winter
"Hell yeah, this one's a blast. Think Frazetta vibes. Propulsive in the way of Karl Edward Wagner's Kane stories and the fuckedupedness of Spine of Night. It's good to see sword and sorcery is alive and well. Hashtag van wizard.

I won a copy while atte" Read more of this review »
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“In some men, it might open a wound, a sad acknowledgment of the state of his marriage, but Ed did not think like that. He lived in the present and was happy to be loved in the present, if not in the past.”
Carson Winter, The Psychographist

“We, the many, will purge our lands of those that keep us under their thumbs. What community is truly a community when it is built on the backs of others? Which of us farms the fields? Which of us brings blood to these soils? To those that are so resolute in their superiority- we offer an alternative to their station.
This alternative is death. By our hands, by those that you have subjugated for so long.
It is true, we are not worldly. But that does not make us weak. We can be fooled, as our rulers have seen in the past. But silver tongues run red with righteous violence when the time is right.”
Carson Winter, A Spectre is Haunting Greentree

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