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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 · 1,662 ratings · 625 reviews · 35 distinct worksSimilar authors
Soft Targets

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The Psychographist

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A Spectre is Haunting Green...

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Split Scream Volume One

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Reunion Special: A Novella

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Portraits of Decay

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A Cold Wind in Autumn

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We Bury Our Dead

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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."
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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It's been said by people smarter than me, but I'm happy to state it still: I think Haunting of Hill House is the best haunted house story of all time. While some modern readers might interpret the lack of explicit information as boring, curious o" Read more of this review »
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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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The Return by Rachel   Harrison
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Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald
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A taut thriller that explores the bestial nature of man and its conflict with society. Sharp prose, lots of wit, and a very fast read.
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The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
" Curtis wrote: "Have you tried Tender is the Flesh? I think you might find it a bit more direct and I'm certain you'd love what a gut punch it is."

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The Obsidian Mirror by Zak Cowell
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Cowell’s The Obsidian Mirror is an atmospheric novella that propels folk horror beyond that of rural rites, into the realm of the cosmic. A quick, fun read for horror fans that yearn for remote manors, weird paintings, and dark histories.
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The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
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An interesting vision of the apocalypse, that was ultimately a bit too oblique and disordered for me to truly appreciate.

Very literary, great imagery—rating reflects my enjoyment rather than the quality of the book.
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Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson
Coffin Moon
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Rosson has written one of the finest vampire novels I’ve ever read. A tightly plotted meditation on violence, revenge, and the will to live with sprinklings of intriguing lore. Highly recommended.
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The Getaway by Jim Thompson
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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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