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Carson Winter

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Carson Winter is an award-winning author, punker, and raw nerve. He's written two novels, The Psychographist and A Spectre Is Haunting Greentree. His short fiction has appeared in over twenty publications, including Apex, Vastarien, and Chthonic Matter Quarterly. He lives in Saint Paul, MN. ...more

Average rating: 4.01 · 1,669 ratings · 627 reviews · 36 distinct worksSimilar authors
Soft Targets

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The Psychographist

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A Spectre is Haunting Green...

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Reunion Special: A Novella

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Portraits of Decay

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The Corpse Priest

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Gargoyle Safari by Luciano Marano
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Luciano Marano writes with a punchy crime lilt, but his fiction is pure horror. Gargoyle Safari is his debut collection and feels almost like a throwback to Matheson, King, and Barker—a classical that feels like a warm blanket. Lots of great stories ...more
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The characters are made of cardboard, the plot is implausible, and there’s an incredible absence of atmosphere. Things just happen, and they keep happening across 77 short chapters. For what it’s worth, I read the whole damn thing in about five days— ...more
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Posthaste Manor by Jolie Toomajan
"The very first book on my Nook! Oooh, aahh!

Just fantastic! So much fun, and so easy to read! I would have gotten through it in one sitting if I didn't start and 9 PM and have to go to work the next morning.

The overlapping novella was the perfect way " Read more of this review »
The Psychographist by Carson Winter
"Quite possibly the most fucked up book I've ever read. There's some serious gore, but the real horror is psychological. And there's no escaping it, because it's not something Winter made up."
The Best of C.L. Moore by C.L. Moore
"Wonderfully imaginative stories from an underrated golden age sci-fi/fantasy writer. They occasionally get long winded (they were of a time), but they're always entertaining."
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30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
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Great premise, great art, bad story. Hard to rate this one, but it’s short enough that I can forgive its sins. It veers into territory that I’d deem too “comic booky” for my tastes, but its atmosphere and art style mostly makes up for it.
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“In some men, it might open a wound, a sad acknowledgment of the state of his marriage, but Ed did not think like that. He lived in the present and was happy to be loved in the present, if not in the past.”
Carson Winter, The Psychographist

“We, the many, will purge our lands of those that keep us under their thumbs. What community is truly a community when it is built on the backs of others? Which of us farms the fields? Which of us brings blood to these soils? To those that are so resolute in their superiority- we offer an alternative to their station.
This alternative is death. By our hands, by those that you have subjugated for so long.
It is true, we are not worldly. But that does not make us weak. We can be fooled, as our rulers have seen in the past. But silver tongues run red with righteous violence when the time is right.”
Carson Winter, A Spectre is Haunting Greentree

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