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JACKSON KUHL is the author of the Revolutionary War biography Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer and the gothic novel A Season of Whispers. Kuhl has written for Atlas Obscura, the Journal of the American Revolution, National Geographic News, and other publications. Several of his short stories, which have appeared in Black Static and numerous anthologies, are collected in The Dead Ride Fast. ...more

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	Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author), David Tallerman (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 95 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
	Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ramsey Campbell (Contributor), Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Horror Library, Volume 6 by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeffrey Ford (Goodreads Author), Bentley Little (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 52 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
	Altered America by Martin T. Ingham, Jackson Kuhl (Goodreads Author), Dan Gainor (Goodreads Author) 2.91 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Season of Whispers 3.86 avg rating — 29 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
	Love Letters to Poe, Volume I: A Toast to Edgar Allan Poe by Sara Crocoll Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeremy Megargee (Goodreads Author), J.L. Royce 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — 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
	Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Science Fiction Trails 11 by David B. Riley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.A. Campbell (Goodreads Author), Henrik Ramsager 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 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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A Season of Whispers is now available from Aurelio Leo.

In the summer of 1844, Tom Lyman flees to Bonaventure, a transcendentalist farming cooperative tucked away in eastern Connecticut, to hide from his past. But one by one, Lyman's secrets begin to catch up with him, and Bonaventure has a few secrets of its own. Why did the farm have an ominous reputation long before its owners bought it? What ca Read more of this blog post »

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