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Dan Poblocki

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Influences

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March 2008


Author of The Stone Child, The Nightmarys, The Ghost of Graylock, and the Mysterious Four series,The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe, and The Book of Bad Things.

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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Published on March 19, 2015 10:06
Average rating: 3.96 · 20,489 ratings · 2,856 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Ghost of Graylock

4.08 avg rating — 5,040 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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The Stone Child

4.08 avg rating — 3,180 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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The Gathering (Shadow House...

3.80 avg rating — 3,016 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions
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The Nightmarys

3.81 avg rating — 2,403 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions
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You Can't Hide (Shadow Hous...

4.04 avg rating — 1,308 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions
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The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe

3.99 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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No Way Out (Shadow House, #3)

4.05 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions
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The Book of Bad Things

3.94 avg rating — 691 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Ghost Hunter's Daughter

3.78 avg rating — 636 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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Tales to Keep You Up at Night

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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.”
Dan Poblocki, 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.”
Dan Poblocki, 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.”
Dan Poblocki, 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.”
Dan Poblocki, 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.”
Dan Poblocki, The Ghost of Graylock

“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
David Mitchell, Slade House

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Stephanie Hi Dan! Can't wait to read The Stone Child - it sounds great. :)

Steph


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