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Justin Alcala

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in Chicago, The United States

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http://www.justinalcala.com

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Genre

Fantasy, Suspense, 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 three novels, including Consumed, (BLK Dog Publishing) The Devil in the Wide City (Solstice Publishing) and Dim Fairy Tales (AllThingsThatMatterPress). 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 breakfast eggs from the impregnable ...more

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Average rating: 4.28 · 82 ratings · 37 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Consumed 4.17 avg rating — 42 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
	The Devil in the Wide City 4.57 avg rating — 14 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
	Dim Fairy Tales 4.33 avg rating — 9 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
	A Forest Only Whispers: A PNR Short Story (DLG Original Book 2) 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	Power Loss liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020	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 Dead End Job 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2021	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 by Various, Amber Benbow, Shaun Curtis 3.80 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
	unfading daydream, issue 9: possession (October 2019) by unfading daydream, J.R. Gershen-Siegel (Goodreads Author), Damien Krsteski 4.67 avg rating — 3 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
	101 Proof Horror by Haunted MTL, Tyler Jones (Goodreads Author), Michael Subjack (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Castabout Literature: October 2019 Edition by Nathan Dantoin, Taylor Hilgart, Michael Subjack (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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 Dead End Job" Hits Pages w/ The Parliament House

When you’re an author, you dream of signing w/ a publisher like The Parliament House. They have knowledgeable editors, an intuitive market team and a creative process for getting your book the attention it deserves. That’s why I am excited to say that my absurdist urban fantasy novel, “A Dead End Job” has been selected by this great publishing team to hit the pages between 2021-22. Stay tuned for Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 31, 2020 06:17 • Tags: absurdist-fiction, fiction, funny, great-tales, horror, new-book, publishing, stories, story-matters, urban-fantasy

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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing All You Hold On To (Anderson Creek #1) by K.T. Egan (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
Maverick and Roxanne are childhood friends. As their love blossoms, the pair grow into young lovers. Roxanne though moves from Pennsylvania, where she meets a new man innEthan. All was going well until...the phone call. Maverick had a serious automob ...more
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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing Magnificent (Inspirational Sci-Fi Series, #1) by Chris Baum (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
Chris Baum takes you into the secretive would of Area 51, and shows you what it would be like if the conspirators were right. What would happen if the government captured a being from another world and held it captive. The alien known as Q is an inte ...more
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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing Clearing in the Woods by Phyllis Newman	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
When I read the cover blurb of "Clearing in the Woods" I thought, "Oh, great. A story about a privileged protagonist whose happy life wasn't what she thought it would be, so she cheats on her husband." Still, I gave it a chance. What I learned was th ...more
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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing Midnight Monster Club (Fallen Rogues Book 1) by Gerhard Gehrke (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 “Midnight Monster Club” is a fast, wild read. It took me two days to burn through this one because of its clean, seamless writing. The protagonist, Digger, cares for graves (go figure), though there’s clues that this is just an alias from his dar ...more
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Justin Alcala made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Adding Books to Author Profile Page topic " I am a contributing author to this book and would love to add it to my goodreads author page please. Thanks for any help you can give, Justin Alcala "
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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing 101 Proof Horror by Haunted MTL	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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Justin Alcala rated a book it was amazing Deadly Enterprise (Mike Stoneman #2) by Kevin G. Chapman (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
There’s two types of mysteries, the cozy neighborhood “who done it” and the hard boiled, gritty, boots-to-the-street kind. I love the latter, which “Deadly Enterprise” DEFINITELY is. We follow the good guys, Examiner Michelle McNeil as she gives a le ...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?”
― Justin Alcala

tags: authors, horror, life-lessons, nightmares, nightmares-fear, reality-of-life

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“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”
― Justin Alcala

tags: authors, imagination, non-fiction, reality

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“I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”
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tags: authors, horror, humor, weird

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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

tags: comercials, consumerism, free-will, god, goddess, greek, p20

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

tags: dracula

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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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