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Dan Poblocki
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in The United States
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Member Since
March 2008
My editor sent advance copies of my new book! The House on...
My editor sent advance copies of my new book! The House on Stone’s Throw Island comes out this August!
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The Ghost of Graylock
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2012
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11 editions
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The Stone Child
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2009
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12 editions
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The Gathering (Shadow House, #1)
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2016
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The Nightmarys
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2010
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13 editions
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You Can't Hide (Shadow House, #2)
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2016
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7 editions
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The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe
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2013
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6 editions
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No Way Out (Shadow House, #3)
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2017
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The Book of Bad Things
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2014
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Ghost Hunter's Daughter
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2020
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3 editions
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Tales to Keep You Up at Night
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2022
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6 editions
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Ended up really emotionally invested in this one. Reminded me of the best of Patricia Highsmith. Harrowing, shocking, violent. Super impressed with how the author juggled the plot points and timelines and characters and played with format to make me ...more |
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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
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| This was shockingly good. All the scares and tensions are psychological and grounded in character and place and detailed antique knick knacks. It reads like an early 70s horror novel, because that’s what it is, and that’s what I enjoyed most about it ...more | |
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I loved this. A friend picked up an advance copy from ALA and having read many of LaReau’s books, I was excited to dig in. Like Rebecca, on which it’s based, the novel is eerie and dreamy and gothic, but will also be accessible to preteens who love s ...more |
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“… we have bad dreams
because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories.”
― The Stone Child
because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories.”
― The Stone Child
“We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.”
― The Ghost of Graylock
― The Ghost of Graylock
“Every town has its share of secrets. And when whispered by children in the dead of night, some secrets become stories. They percolate and brew and change. Sometimes, under special circumstances, the stories become legends, destined to survive even as the children who share them grow up and move on.”
― The Ghost of Graylock
― The Ghost of Graylock
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“… we have bad dreams
because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories.”
― The Stone Child
because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories.”
― The Stone Child
“We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.”
― The Ghost of Graylock
― The Ghost of Graylock
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
― Slade House
― Slade House
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