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Deborah Sheldon
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in Melbourne, Australia
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Cretaceous Canyon
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Devil Dragon
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2016
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2 editions
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Thylacines
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2018
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2 editions
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Dark Waters
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2014
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8 editions
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Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories With Bite
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2023
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Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies
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Man-Beast
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Body Farm Z
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Perfect Little Stitches: and Other Stories
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2017
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Ronnie and Rita
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2013
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July E-book Giveaway - LIMINAL SPACES: HORROR STORIES
In collaboration with The Horror Tree, I'm giving away 12 of my published titles over the 12 months of 2026. Why? To celebrate my 40th year as a professional writer!
For July, The Horror Tree is giving away TEN e-book copies of my collection, Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories, which was shortlisted for the Australasian Shadows "Best Collected Work" Award.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
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For July, The Horror Tree is giving away TEN e-book copies of my collection, Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories, which was shortlisted for the Australasian Shadows "Best Collected Work" Award.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
The giv Read more of this blog post »
Deborah’s Recent Updates
"Of Beasts & Bones — Edited by Robin Knabel
My horror experience before this was almost entirely through film, so picking up a horror anthology was a deliberate step outside my comfort zone. That, combined with a striking cover and the presence of J.D." Read more of this review » |
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"This is a book of short stories, in this case with the same characters throughout the book. One might wonder if a book of drunken thieves can hold interest for 200 plus pages, but Steinbeck is a good storyteller, so it did capture my attention.
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Deborah Sheldon
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Jim Kuenzli's review
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Savage Realms Monthly: June 2026: A collection of dark fantasy sword and sorcery adventures (Savage Realms Monthly Dark Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Adventure Magazine Book 45):
"Another solid issue. Three very different stories presented, yet all were good. My personal favorite was the first consisting of a Norse warrior maiden who raised her father from the dead to defeat a sorcereress and a dragon. Savage Realms doesn’t di"
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| I'm not sure what I expected from this autobiography. Insight? Understanding? All I know is that Nilsen decided to start killing in 1978 and decided to stop in 1983. The urge to kill apparently never bothered him again. I've read one other book about ...more | |
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| This door-stopper anthology has 43 stories - plus my foreword! - so it's a smorgasbord to any lover of creature-feature horror. Kudos to editor Robin Knabel for curating such a vast and entertaining array of monster tales. ...more | |
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| I've read a couple of Jackson's novels, yet didn't expect this to be so funny. In fact, I laughed out loud a few times. Jackson's dialogue in particular sounds every bit as witty and acerbic as Dorothy Parker, another of my favourite 20th-century aut ...more | |
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| This is compulsively readable. It's no wonder Michener won the Pulitzer Prize; the writing style is engaging, the stories intriguing, and the characterisations are terrific. But now, I'm wondering how on earth Hollywood turned Michener's collection o ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Horror Aficionados :
June 2018 Group Read Nominations
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| Around the World ...: Bianca's 2018 & 2019 (Tourist) | 29 | 94 | Jun 24, 2019 07:36PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : What Have You Read - 2020 | 629 | 396 | Jan 01, 2021 01:34PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Track the Books You've Read: 2020 | 40 | 431 | Jan 27, 2021 02:32PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : 2021-Track the Books You've Read! | 41 | 307 | Jan 01, 2022 06:55AM | |
| Horror Aficionados : ABC Words Associated with Horror (including well-known authors' last names and famous characters) | 1537 | 445 | May 16, 2022 07:44AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: June 2022 Ugly Once a Month (Pretty the Rest of the Time) | 66 | 39 | Aug 12, 2022 07:59AM | |
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Crazy Challenge C...:
Murder Mystery
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“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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