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Darkness Awaits: A collection of horror fiction by Bram Stoker Award finalist Tom Leveen
Monsters and mayhem, spiders and slitherings, magic and the macabre...it's all here for you just in time for Halloween, from meals to snacks to quick (but bloody) bites to slake your thirst for the scary, the monstrous, and sometimes . . . the amusing!
A collection of original horror stories by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Tom Leveen (author of SICK and HELLWORLD).
The Desert
Legion
Heartless - a full-length novel
Heartless - a short story
Those We Bury Back - a novella
Tree Fort
Crimson Candles
Now You Don’t - a novella
Bigfoot
KillerCon
Alone
Panic - a novella companion to Sick
I Love You, Marie
Cooped Up
Dead Street
Dinosaurs Downstairs
A collection of original horror stories by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Tom Leveen (author of SICK and HELLWORLD).
The Desert
Legion
Heartless - a full-length novel
Heartless - a short story
Those We Bury Back - a novella
Tree Fort
Crimson Candles
Now You Don’t - a novella
Bigfoot
KillerCon
Alone
Panic - a novella companion to Sick
I Love You, Marie
Cooped Up
Dead Street
Dinosaurs Downstairs
638 pages, Paperback
Published November 28, 2022
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About the author
Tom Leveen
50 books239 followersTom Leveen is the author of nine novels originally with imprints of Random House, Simon & Schuster, Abrams, and more. He has written with Todd McFarlane on SPAWN, the comic book series, and fiction for the TTRPG BattleTech for Topps, Inc.
Recently an early literacy specialist with Phoenix Public Library, Tom has twelve years of previous library work experience. He also has 22 years of theatre experience as an actor and director, and has been the Artistic Director for two different award-winning theatre companies.
Tom wrote his first story in second grade and has been writing and telling stories ever since. His first horror novel, SICK, won the Westchester Fiction Award and the Grand Canyon Reader Award. His novel ZERO was a Best Book of 2013 (American Library Association/Young Adult Library Services Association).
A frequent guest speaker and teacher, Tom has taught, paneled, and/or keynoted for SCBWI, RWA, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Phoenix ComiCon, AzLA, NCTE, TEDx, People of Color Network, Western New Mexico University, Arizona State University, Arizona Reading Association, Kennesaw State University, multiple schools and conferences throughout Germany, AETA, the Los Angeles Teen Book Fest, and many others.
In addition, apropos of absolutely nothing, Tom:
Finished a marathon (in six and half hours) and a triathalon sprint in 2 hours, earned a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do, co-hosted a public access comedy show, directed 30 plays and acted in 30 more, ran a theatre company out of his backyard, met almost all of his literary heroes except for Stephen King, played in a punk band live in front of actual people (once), prefers the Hero System but nevertheless runs a warlock minotaur and storm cleric elf when time permits, trained at the Utah Shakespeare Festival Actor Training program for five sessions, was Best Masque & Gavel Member in high school, lettered in Speech, has a rock in one finger from a pretty bad bail on his (now stolen) Tony Hawk, was the safari train driver for the Phoenix Zoo for a short time, worked in the stock room for Forever 21 for an even shorter time, completed a Spartan Sprint with three friends, and spent twenty years earning his Bachelor of Science degree. He is currently in an MFA program at a major international university.
So if there's something you want to do, go do it.
Recently an early literacy specialist with Phoenix Public Library, Tom has twelve years of previous library work experience. He also has 22 years of theatre experience as an actor and director, and has been the Artistic Director for two different award-winning theatre companies.
Tom wrote his first story in second grade and has been writing and telling stories ever since. His first horror novel, SICK, won the Westchester Fiction Award and the Grand Canyon Reader Award. His novel ZERO was a Best Book of 2013 (American Library Association/Young Adult Library Services Association).
A frequent guest speaker and teacher, Tom has taught, paneled, and/or keynoted for SCBWI, RWA, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Phoenix ComiCon, AzLA, NCTE, TEDx, People of Color Network, Western New Mexico University, Arizona State University, Arizona Reading Association, Kennesaw State University, multiple schools and conferences throughout Germany, AETA, the Los Angeles Teen Book Fest, and many others.
In addition, apropos of absolutely nothing, Tom:
Finished a marathon (in six and half hours) and a triathalon sprint in 2 hours, earned a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do, co-hosted a public access comedy show, directed 30 plays and acted in 30 more, ran a theatre company out of his backyard, met almost all of his literary heroes except for Stephen King, played in a punk band live in front of actual people (once), prefers the Hero System but nevertheless runs a warlock minotaur and storm cleric elf when time permits, trained at the Utah Shakespeare Festival Actor Training program for five sessions, was Best Masque & Gavel Member in high school, lettered in Speech, has a rock in one finger from a pretty bad bail on his (now stolen) Tony Hawk, was the safari train driver for the Phoenix Zoo for a short time, worked in the stock room for Forever 21 for an even shorter time, completed a Spartan Sprint with three friends, and spent twenty years earning his Bachelor of Science degree. He is currently in an MFA program at a major international university.
So if there's something you want to do, go do it.
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March 7, 2023
(4.8) stars
This is an AWESOME collection of horror short stories! (At over 600 pages long 🥵)
My spoiler free review that mostly shows my love for this book 🤣
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I really got locked into this book when I started reading The Heartless short story! OH MY GOSH!!!! That was insane!!!!!
Let's talk about this though. The understanding of AZ weather. It was pretty cool knowing some of the places mentioned! I have now decided that I kinda want to pull off the I-15 at night hehehe.
The thing is, I feel like I would have totally jointed this group though.
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Those We Bury Back creeped my out with the doll part... the doll is creepy!
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Now You Don't. Okay that one I was scared to start because Tom Leveen literally rated it R & said it was scary! I still read it... and I got very paranoid at night when reading that story 😅 That seriously took a twist though!
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Bigfoot was definitely not what I was expecting! Same with KillerCon
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Tree Fort took me a couple minutes to process that story.... What The Heck?!?!?!?
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Thank you so much Tom Leveen for the review copy! This book was ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL!!!! I definitely recommend this book!!!!!
This is an AWESOME collection of horror short stories! (At over 600 pages long 🥵)
My spoiler free review that mostly shows my love for this book 🤣
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I really got locked into this book when I started reading The Heartless short story! OH MY GOSH!!!! That was insane!!!!!
Let's talk about this though. The understanding of AZ weather. It was pretty cool knowing some of the places mentioned! I have now decided that I kinda want to pull off the I-15 at night hehehe.
The thing is, I feel like I would have totally jointed this group though.
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Those We Bury Back creeped my out with the doll part... the doll is creepy!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now You Don't. Okay that one I was scared to start because Tom Leveen literally rated it R & said it was scary! I still read it... and I got very paranoid at night when reading that story 😅 That seriously took a twist though!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bigfoot was definitely not what I was expecting! Same with KillerCon
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Tree Fort took me a couple minutes to process that story.... What The Heck?!?!?!?
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Thank you so much Tom Leveen for the review copy! This book was ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL!!!! I definitely recommend this book!!!!!
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