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Peering into the Darkness by Aiden Truss

The Master of Horror, Stephen King, once said he was: The Big Mac and fries of literature. Having just had my first novel Gape published then, I suppose I must be the day-old sandwich stuck at the back of a fridge in the rear of a gas station of literature. The fridge would probably have…

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North Dark Blog Tour – Dark Adventure, Dark Fantasy by Lane Kareska

The first question someone will typically ask about my novella North Dark is ‘What’s the genre?’ My answer is always a blend of answers, rambling through influences as old-school as Jack London, as pulpy as Lovecraft and as stark as A Farewell to Arms. But that doesn’t really answer the genre question so much as…

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“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

— George R.R. Martin

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