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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.

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	The Bell Witch 3.50 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 2013 — 7 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 3.51 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Little Deaths 3.69 avg rating — 347 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) 4.34 avg rating — 220 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
	The End in All Beginnings 4.26 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Air & Dust (The Fearing #3) 4.37 avg rating — 117 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) 4.31 avg rating — 105 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
	Little Black Spots 4.16 avg rating — 87 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
	Kill/Off 4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013	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
	Blood & Brimstone (The Fearing #5) 4.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2020 — 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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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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“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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“I know death. Intimately. And there is no part of it that is cute and cozy.”
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“Does one ever know what another is capable of doing at his or her best?”
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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%

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