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John F.D. Taff

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John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award short-listed dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 100 short stories and seven novels in print.

He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood and Savage Beasts. His work will appear soon in The Seven Deadliest and I Can Hear the Shadows.

His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apo ...more

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	The Bell Witch 3.50 avg rating — 1,118 ratings — published 2013 — 9 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
	Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror by John F.D. Taff (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author), Ramsey Campbell 3.42 avg rating — 860 ratings — published 2022 — 10 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
	Little Deaths 3.71 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	Fire & Rain (The Fearing #1) 4.29 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Water and Wind (The Fearing #2) 4.53 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The End in All Beginnings 4.20 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2014 — 9 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
	Air & Dust (The Fearing #3) 4.37 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Earth & Ember (The Fearing #4) 4.29 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	I Can Taste the Blood by John F.D. Taff (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anthony Rivera (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Little Black Spots 4.12 avg rating — 97 ratings — 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

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DARK STARS: NEW TALES OF DARKEST HORROR

So, I’m editing this new anthology of stories.

A few years ago, my pal Josh Malerman (he of Bird Box and Malorie) had this idea. No one had really put together an anthology to follow up on that seminal ’80s antho DARK FORCES, edited by Kirby McCauley. This book has stories from people like Joyce Carol Oates and Isaac Bashevis Singer and Kind and Robert Bloch and Ramsey Campbell and Stephen King. It

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The Spirits' Book: Modern English Edition: Teachings From Advanced Spirits on God, Angels, Heaven, the Afterlife, the Purpose of Life, and the Spiritual Journey

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“Why do you persist in this belief that punishment must be meted out from either God or Satan when the most relentless, merciless punisher is that within? For we can never escape its scourges and lashes.”
― John F.D. Taff, The Bell Witch

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“Does one ever know what another is capable of doing at his or her best?”
― John F.D. Taff, Little Black Spots

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“I know death. Intimately. And there is no part of it that is cute and cozy.”
― John F.D. Taff, Little Black Spots

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As I mentioned, I wanted to read a witch themed book for our scary October read. However, I had a bit of trouble finding really scary witch themed books, but that's okay. We'll just go with mildly creepy...perhaps. This is a quick poll, as my Season of the Witch event at Castle Macabre hinges on this pick. Last day to vote is this Sunday.

The Bell Witch

John F.D. Taff

3 votes, 60.0%

The Witch's Trinity

Erika Mailman

1 vote, 20.0%

Season of the Witch

Natasha Mostert

1 vote, 20.0%

A Mirror for Witches

Esther Forbes

0 votes, 0.0%

Witch Hunt

Devin O'Branagan

0 votes, 0.0%

5 total votes

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