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Christopher Burke

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Patreon – Film Criticism, Fiction, etc

Hi everyone,

I’ve been a bit neglectful of my main website here, but I’m now over on Patreon where you can find regular film criticism in the form of reviews and long-form essays, some of which used to live here. I’m also tossing in occasional works of short fiction and other features at different subscriber levels. I hope you’ll consider subscribing, and thanks as always for any support whether mo

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Average rating: 4.19 · 106 ratings · 22 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Nightscript Volume 1 by C.M. Muller (Editor), Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author), Gregory L. Norris 4.03 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Dim Shores Presents Volume 1 by Paul L. Bates (Goodreads Author), Christopher Burke (Goodreads Author), Victoria Dalpe (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom by S.J. Bagley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nick Mamatas (Interviewee), Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019	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
	NecronomiCon Providence 2017 by S.J. Bagley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Niels-Viggo S. Hobbs (Editor), Carmen Marusich (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	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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Euroschlock Nightmares: Lurid Tales of Cinematic Continental Horror

by Jonathan Raab

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Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity

by Alexandra West

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Bone Map: Poems (National Poetry Series)

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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

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