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Michael May

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in Cocoa Beach, FL, The United States

May 29, 1967

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Michael May writes the comic Kill All Monsters (co-created and drawn by Jason Copland) and other cool adventure stories. He's also the host or co-host of numerous podcasts on a variety of pop culture topics. ...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 52 ratings · 14 reviews · 1 distinct work

Kill All Monsters!: Vol.1 Ruins of Paris
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Jason Copland

3.48 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions

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Jane and the Stillroom Maid by Stephanie Barron

Although I love the entire Austen Mysteries series so far, some of the individual books can drag. Barron's version of Austen is always a great, funny, observant, courageous detective, so she and her supporting cast and all of the historical details that Barron includes are enough to keep me interested. But some of the books have had stretches in which I was eager to get back to the investigati Read more of this blog post »

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

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Nocturnals Omnibus Volume 1

by Dan Brereton

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Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories, Volume 2

by Mike Mignola

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I'm a fan of Dan Brereton's art and have always wanted to read his Nocturnals series. I read this to talk about on a podcast, but it's a later book in the series, so even though the book is gorgeous to look at and the characters are all very cool, I' ...more
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Read for a weekly book group that had an aggressive reading schedule for the last two sessions, so I skimmed the last half. I love the encouragement to actively look for hope and to participate in activities that help us find it. It's something that ...more
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