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Dexter McLeod

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Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction

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Dexter McLeod was born and raised in western Kentucky near the shores of Land Between the Lakes, though he has lived throughout the American south, including Nashville, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina. He's been obsessed with books since childhood, where he could be found haunting his hometown library or creating his own handwritten, staple-bound Choose Your Own Adventure stories. Naturally he grew up to work in bookstores, spending nearly a decade at various Davis-Kidd Booksellers locations.

Dexter writes in the darker shades of Southern Gothic, folk and cosmic horror, science fiction, and the New Weird. His work has been published by Air and Nothingness Press, Dark Moon Books, Eerie River Publishing, The Horror Tree, KJK Publishing ...more

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Book Review: A Better Kind of Hate

A Better Kind of Hate by Beau Johnson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Beau Johnson is possibly the nicest author on Twitter. I lead with that because if you read this book without knowing that, his characters might lead you to assume he is a professional hit man or a serial killer. I'm sure all that disturbed earth in his backyard is just composting from an autumn pumpkin patch. Yes, that's got to be it Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.3 · 744 ratings · 166 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Horror Collection: Morte Edition by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Nick Roberts (Goodreads Author), Devin Cabrera (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 184 ratings — 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 Horror Collection: Christmas Edition by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Ryan Colley (Goodreads Author), Amy Cross (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2025 — 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 Horror Collection: Crystal Edition by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author), Lee Mountford (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Collected Christmas Horror Shorts IV (Collected Horror Shorts, #4) by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Ryan Colley (Goodreads Author), Dexter McLeod (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Ghosts (Classic Monsters, #3) by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Ryan Colley (Goodreads Author), Lee Mountford (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Horror Library, Volume 8 by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jana Heidersdorf (Illustrator), Octavia Cade (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.59 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2023 — 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 Earth Bleeds At Night: Anthology of Horror by Holley Cornetto (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jonathan Louis Duckworth (Goodreads Author), Lynne Hansen (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings — 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
	Horror Library, Volume 9 by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael A. Livolsi (Illustrator), Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2026 — 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
	Wight Christmas: Holiday Horror and Seasonal Subversion by Martin Munks (Editor), James Blakey (Goodreads Author), Rhian Bowley (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Upon a Thrice Time by Andrew Bud Adams, Devan Barlow, Marie Croke 3.94 avg rating — 16 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

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