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	Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephanie M. Wytovich (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 1,051 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Clive Barker (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 343 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
	The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Neugebauer (Goodreads Author), Sarah Read (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Welcome to the Show by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Skipp, Mary SanGiovanni (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 250 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
	Shadows Over Main Street by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ramsey Campbell (Foreword) 3.68 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary A. Braunbeck 4.15 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	For When the Veil Drops by Christian Larsen, Doug Murano (Goodreads Author), C. Bryan Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 3 by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 31 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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“Marriage changes things; it’s like a mutation. Sometimes your relationship gets superpowers, but sometimes it goes malignant.”
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“He saw the basics of her, the very base, and that’s what he wanted. Not the trappings. Not the prettiness. He wanted the deep and dark and ugly. The most honest and primal parts.”
― Doug Murano, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

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“The world is a mirror,” he said. “What we see is a reflection of who we are.”
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