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John Brhel

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in Johnson City, NY, The United States

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https://cemeterygatesmedia.com/

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I'm the co-author of Tales From Valleyview Cemetery, Marvelry's Curiosity Shop, At The Cemetery Gates: Year One and Carol for a Haunted Man, Corpse Cold: New American Folklore, Her Mourning Portrait and Other Paranormal Oddities, Resurrection High , At The Cemetery Gates: Volume 2 and The Thrumming Stone with my long-time friend Joe Sullivan.

I work full-time as a marketing/PR professional at Binghamton University. I enjoy writing, reading, watching movies, playing music, and spending time with my family. ...more

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	Other Voices, Other Tombs by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joseph Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kealan Burke 3.87 avg rating — 165 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
	Places We Fear to Tread by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Corpse Cold: New American Folklore by John Brhel (Goodreads Author), Joseph Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2017 — 4 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
	Marvelry's Curiosity Shop by John Brhel (Goodreads Author), Joseph Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 140 ratings — 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
	Tales from Valleyview Cemetery by John Brhel (Goodreads Author), Joseph Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	At the Cemetery Gates: Year One by John Brhel (Goodreads Author), Joseph Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 119 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
	Campfire Macabre by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan (Editor), Kealan Patrick Burke (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Paranormal Contact: A Quiet Horror Confessional by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan, Tim Meyer (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 40 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
	At The Cemetery Gates: Volume 2 by John Brhel (Goodreads Author), Joseph Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Campfire Macabre: Volume 2 by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan (Editor), Angela Sylvaine (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 32 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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[image error]I’m happy to announce (somewhat belatedly) that my new book co-written with J. Sullivan is now available. Carol for a Haunted Man is the tale of a daunted man’s will to succeed in the face of despair. It is a novella inspired by, and in homage to, the Christmas stories of Charles Dickens. Included with the novella are stories from each of our three other books.

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Beautiful, surprising and poignant prose — not unexpected from the Twilight Zone mastermind.
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“I suffered nightmares in which I awoke to find myself limbless and mute, screaming soundlessly in a room that did not exist beyond the crooked oblong sketched out by the moonlight.”
― John Brhel, Other Voices, Other Tombs

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Making Connections: 4478. - MARVELRY'S CURIOSITY SHOP by John Brhel	3	9	Jul 28, 2016 06:37PM
Making Connections: 4663. - AT THE CEMETERY GATES: Year One by John Brhel & J. Sullivan	3	6	Nov 05, 2016 03:51AM
Making Connections: 5077. - CORPSE COLD: NEW AMERICAN FOLKLORE by John Brhel & Joseph Sullivan	3	17	Dec 17, 2017 06:48AM

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“The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight. If you do not do it, the story is a failure. [...] There is no nobler chore in the universe than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal', the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.”
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