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David Oppegaard

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in St. Paul, MN, The United States

Website

http://www.DavidOppegaard.com

Genre

Horror, Thriller, Young Adult

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November 2008

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David Oppegaard is the author of Claw Heart Mountain (CamCat Books 2023), The Town Built on Sorrow, The Firebug of Balrog County (MN Book Award finalist), The Suicide Collectors (Bram Stoker finalist), Wormwood, Nevada, And the Hills Opened Up, The Ragged Mountains, and the novella Breakneck Cove.

David’s work is a blend of horror, literary fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Hamline University and a B.A. in English from St. Olaf College. He lives in St. Paul, MN with his wife and their ravenous cat.

His author website/blog is www.davidoppegaard.com
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Average rating: 3.42 · 1,563 ratings · 374 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Suicide Collectors 3.24 avg rating — 886 ratings — published 2008 — 14 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
	Claw Heart Mountain 3.56 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2023 — 12 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 Town Built on Sorrow 4.10 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Firebug of Balrog County 3.66 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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
	And the Hills Opened Up 3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Wormwood, Nevada 3.01 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	The Ragged Mountains 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Breakneck Cove 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	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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“An empty bottle of whiskey lay on his stomach, like a sleeping cat.”
― David Oppegaard, [The Suicide Collectors] [By: Oppegaard, David] [November, 2009]

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