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Daniel Stalter

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in Saratoga Springs, NY, The United States

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Comics, Science Fiction, Horror

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Daniel is a storyteller and a comic book writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He launched his first series Dream Crasher in 2015 with artist and frequent collaborator Reed Olsen. They have since published 4 of the 12 planned chapters, and have run two successful Kickstarter Campaigns. The first collected edition of the series was released in the summer of 2018. He also writes for the Geeks OUT blog and is an organizing member of the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers.

As a child, Daniel filled countless notebooks with stories. Many of them were about the planet Dogtopia, and more than a few were RL Stine inspired knock-offs. The passion for storytelling continued in the form of film in his high school and college years, where he also discovered s ...more

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Everything & Nothing

A look back at 2025 as experienced through travel, music, bike rides, movies, and books.

For over ten years now, I have closed out the year with top ten lists of my favorite books, music, and movies. It’s all well-organized and aesthetically pleasing, but the format was beginning to feel stale. At this point, rankings in general seem trivial and self-aggrandising, so I am going to try somethin

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Average rating: 4.3 · 23 ratings · 6 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Dream Crasher, Volume 1 (Dream Crasher #1-4) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) 4.57 avg rating — 7 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
	Dream Crasher, #1: Creature's Keeper (Dream Crasher #1) 4.20 avg rating — 5 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
	Dream Crasher #3: Welcome Home (Dream Crasher #3) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	Dream Crasher #4: Dearest, the Shadows (Dream Crasher #4) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	Dream Crasher #2: The Land Vomits Ghosts (Dream Crasher #2) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic (Letterer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 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
	Dream Crasher #5: The Dreamer's Parasite (Dream Crasher #5) by Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author), Reed Olsen (Artist), Frank Cvetkovic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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

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Series by Daniel Stalter

Dream Crasher (6 books)
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Daniel Stalter (Goodreads Author),

Reed Olsen (Artist),

Frank Cvetkovic

4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings

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Star Wars: Vader Down

by Jason Aaron

bookshelves: comics, star-wars-canon, ω-digital-shelf, mini-series, currently-reading

read in January 2016

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Horse

by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: literary, novels, ω-audio-shelf, currently-reading

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Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

by Brian McAuley (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: horror, ω-physical-shelf, pulp-horror, novels, nostalgia, currently-reading

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“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
― Neil Gaiman

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