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Derek’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Derek’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Derek Austin Johnson
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Campfire Macabre
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Camp Slasher Lake: Volume One
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Rayguns Over Texas
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Generation X-ed
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Horror USA: Texas
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The Faith
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The Devilfish Have Their Day
Out now. My story "Day of the Devilfish" is in Cthulhu Dreams edited by A. Balsamo and released by Inkd Publishing. It is my attempt to answer the question of what John Steinbeck's fiction would have looked like if it had been published by Weird Tales. The book also includes stories by Rachel Roth, Armand Rosamilia, A. M. Sutter, Ross Baxter, and Kelli Dianne Rule, among many others. You can pick
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| Quick personal note: C. F. Page published my story “Prodigal” in his anthology Anterior Skies, and has spoken highly of it elsewhere. I state this only because my own thoughts of his novella Born of Blood are not a tit-for-tat but a genuine appreciat ...more | |
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"I like to describe this novella as "GREEN ROOM meets GERALD'S GAME." It's the closest thing I've yet written to "extreme" horror--though, I wouldn't say it goes nearly as hard or gets nearly as bleak as the most extreme "extreme" horror stories I've "
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“...the look of a man who had made the devil's bargain and knew he had lost.”
― The Atrocity Exhibition
― The Atrocity Exhibition
“Cats are loners that keep us company only when the mood strikes them,”
― The Loud Table
― The Loud Table
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
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Hi Derek,Thanks for accepting my friend request. If you have a chance please check out my novel TaXXXi Tales https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... and add it to your read list.
Best,
Richie
Thank You so much for adding me as a friend.
Hey, thanks for the add, Derek. Much success and good reads to you. Have a great week.Ed Lynskey
PELHAM FELL HERE
Thanks for the friendship, Derek!Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous fates, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.
I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of reading about my debut novel, Vacation, which recently made the Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot. Your support would mean a lot to me. If you'd like to do me this honor, feel free to vist my site here:
http://www.hauntedhousedressing.com/v...
Happytimes,
-Jeremy :)
Peter: Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.'
Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.
Good luck!
Richie