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Adam Howe

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Born

in London, The United Kingdom

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Adam_G_Howe

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Crime, Horror, Humor and Comedy

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Stephen King, Joe Lansdale, Elmore Leonard, Shane Black

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February 2014

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Adam Howe writes the twisted fiction your mother warned you about. A British writer of fiction and screenplays, he lives in London with his partner, their daughter, and a hellhound named Gino. Writing as Garrett Addams, his short story Jumper was chosen by Stephen King as the winner of the international On Writing contest, and published in the paperback/Kindle editions of King’s memoir. His fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Thuglit, Mythic Delirium, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and other places. He is the author of One Tough Bastard, Scapegoat (with James Newman), Tijuana Donkey Showdown, Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet, and Black Cat Mojo, and the editor of the Wrestle Maniacs anthology. In the pipeline: The Polack, a gritty 1930s noi ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 1,497 ratings · 454 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet 4.32 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Gator Bait 4.19 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2015	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
	Scapegoat by Adam Howe (Goodreads Author), James Newman (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Tijuana Donkey Showdown 4.53 avg rating — 89 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
	One Tough Bastard 4.37 avg rating — 91 ratings — 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
	Black Cat Mojo 4.42 avg rating — 78 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
	Wrestle Maniacs by Adam Howe (Goodreads Author), Duncan P. Bradshaw (Goodreads Author), James Newman (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 58 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
	Of Moose and Men: A Reggie Levine Novelette 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings	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
	Black Cat Mojo & Die, Dog Or Eat The Hatchet 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017	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 Inside Secrets of Internet Marketing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Jesus, Lonnie. What were you thinking?” “Beyond Wrestlemania and banging Cyndi, not much.”
― Adam Howe, Scapegoat

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“He had nothing against the marys – so long as they kept their mitts to themselves, which he knew wasn’t easy with a hunk of all-American beef like Shane Moxie to tempt them”
― Adam Howe, One Tough Bastard

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“I deserve to be blown! First! Before the fucking jacuzzi!”
― Mel Gibson

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“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

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“It's true what they say. Never meet your heroes. It turns out they're all a bunch of fucking assholes. They're probably the reason you turned into such a fucking asshole - because they were your heroes and you spent all your time trying to be like them.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story: A Memoir

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“Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff”
― Joe R. Lansdale

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“I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.”
― Jean Claude Van Damme