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Justin Alcala

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Born

in Chicago, The United States

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http://www.justinalcala.com

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Fantasy, Humor and Comedy, Horror

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Jim Butcher, Andrew Smith, Christopher Moore, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan ...more

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January 2014

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Justin Alcala is a novelist, nerdologist and Speculative Literature Foundation Award Finalist. He’s the author of four novels including Consumed, (BLK Dog Publishing) The Devil in the Wide City (Solstice Publishing) Dim Fairy Tales (AllThingsThatMatterPress) and A Dead End Job (The Parliament House). His short stories have been featured in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including It Snows Here (Power Loss Anthology),The Offering (Rogue Planet Press Magazine) and The Lantern Quietly Screams (Castabout Literature). When he’s not burning out his retinas in front of a computer, Justin is a tabletop gamer, blogger, folklore enthusiast and time traveler. He is an avid quester of anything righteous, from fighting dragons to acquiring magical ...more

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	A Dead-End Job 4.01 avg rating — 131 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
	Consumed 4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Dim Fairy Tales 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The Devil in the Wide City 4.44 avg rating — 16 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
	101 Proof Horror by Tyler Jones (Goodreads Author), Edward Ahern (Goodreads Author), Justin Alcala (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	Power Loss: What Happens When the Lights Go Out Forever? by John Wait (Editor), Todd Cinani, Amber Benbow 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Beyond the Levee and Other Ghostly Tales by Peter Talley, David Antrobus (Goodreads Author) (Contributor ), Justin Alcala (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.80 avg rating — 5 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
	A Forest Only Whispers: A PNR Short Story 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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
	Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Volume 4, Book 2 by Benjamin White (Editor), Justin Alcala (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
	Citizen Survivors: The Red Book by Various, Richard Denham (Goodreads Author), M.J. Trow 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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 BIG Giveaway Thank You!!!

We want to thank everyone who entered our goodreads "A DEAD END JOB" giveaway. We had an enormous response, and are delighted that so many of you wanted to get a free copy. Stay tuned for more chances, and as always, thanks for being a weird-reader...like me!

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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing A History of the Apocalypse by Catalin Negru (Goodreads Author)	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
Listen, one day the Earth will end, and many have unsuccessfully sought to guess when. This is a nice documentation of all the hysteria throughout the generations surrounding the apocalypse, and the reasons behind it. Sensitive readers, or those who ...more
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Sarah Stryker takes a dystopian society and mixes it with a savage subjugation theme. Sometimes you just need an a$$ whooper. Sarah Stryker, a loner and renegade, is one one woman wrecking ball taking on a government created by far wing views and alo ...more
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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing Virtue (Intuition #1) by Jordan Leger (Goodreads Author)	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 best books know how to draw emotions without telling you how to feel. That’s why we’ll written romance novels will always be at the forefront of bestselling novels. Virtue’s series has the potential to be just that. This written romance novel int ...more
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"She Chose to Love" by Yvette Dulo is filled with inspiring words that will become your new muse. Its four parts, "She Chose to Resist," "She Chose to Heal," "She Chose to Be," and "She Chose to Love", are a well written compilation with beautiful wo ...more
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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing If We Had Known by Arlene Lomazoff-Marron (Goodreads Author)	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
Arlene Lomazoff-Marron writes a tale of secrets, anxiety, and the burden it all brings in “If We Had Known: A Contemporary Novel of secrets, loss, love, and family.” The book reads smoothly, realistically, and with strong perspective. Our main charac ...more
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Shapeshifters, vicious pirates, mysticism—you can’t have these details in a book without it being awesome. “The Water Tiger” is a highly imaginative novel that takes place in the 18th century. You dive in to follow the protagonist, Miranda, who’s an ...more
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Book 3 of this series tops it off with a banger. I picked this book up before reading the others, and quickly found myself catching up by looking the other books (my fault and no other). Once I did however, I was eager to connect with the main charac ...more
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“Simon: Not Your Average Superhero” is a fantastic tale for someone looking for something new in fiction. The book’s narration is in a rare second-person point of view. We start in a framing narrative, with an elderly man telling a character named Si ...more
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“Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”
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“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”
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“I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”
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“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”
― Fitz-James O'Brien, Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

tags: moon, night, quiet

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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

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“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

tags: family

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