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Rebecca Rowland

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Praised by Rue Morgue Magazine as a “dark fiction talent who deftly wed[s] hardcore horror and true, affecting pathos,” Rebecca Rowland is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author and a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor. She is co-founder of the Literary Nasties, awards given annually to the best in transgressive and misfit fiction. Cemetery Dance stated that her fiction “reeks of The Twilight Zone in all the best ways” and that she is “easily one of the best short story writers today.”

She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers, and having lived in Massachusetts for most of her life, she chooses to set most of her fiction there. Despite earning graduate degrees in English, Education, and In
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Rebecca Rowland Right now, I am collaborating with my writing partner, another fiction writer, to pen a thriller/horror novel; we are about 12 chapters in, and I'm ve…moreRight now, I am collaborating with my writing partner, another fiction writer, to pen a thriller/horror novel; we are about 12 chapters in, and I'm very excited about it!(less)
Rebecca Rowland Well, my book is a collection of short stories, and each one was inspired by a different thing. Sometimes, my stories come from the smallest of detail…moreWell, my book is a collection of short stories, and each one was inspired by a different thing. Sometimes, my stories come from the smallest of details. For instance, "Open House" sprang from a television commercial advertising enrollment at the Catholic elementary school near my house. "The Munchies" was inspired by a close friend of mine who has small children. He used to begin almost all of our conversations with "Don't ever have children" before recounting a trying incident with one or both of his kids; he loves them more than anything in the world, so the comment became more of a comedic mantra, but I couldn't help but wonder, what if it wasn't the raising of the children that was so frustrating but the pregnancy itself? and the creepy side effect the couple experiences in the story was born.(less)
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“Every time I think about it, it makes me happy. Do you think I’m a monster?”
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“Human bodies wear down," he continued . "They give out. No one is immortal, not without help. All writers wish to live forever, don't they? Even if they won't admit it. They vomit up these sacred parts of themselves, wrap those shards in paper, and pray the remnants will exist long after they are decomposing in the grave.”
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“That afternoon, she thought momentarily of those 1950s B-movies with alien invaders who inhabited unsuspecting human hosts.”
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