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What I Read In October Wow, this month flew by and I barely read a thing. Nine books total, which is defintely lower than I've been averaging. But, we'd had a lot...

What I read in October. It wasn't much and there was definitely some slogging through books when a DNF might have been the better route...

So let's see which books were knock outs and which ones I should have chucked out the door, shall we?

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Darrin Doyle's latest book gets "If My Book"ed:

'If The Dark Will End the Dark were a meat, it would be a hot dog. Made of bits and pieces of god-knows-what but strangely delicious when cooked over an open flame'.

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10th Anniversary release: The Dark Will End the Dark by Darrin Doyle + read the new story here! 10th Anniversary release: The Dark Will End the Dark by Darrin Doyle + read the new story here!

I Smell Sheep helped us spotlight the 10th anniversary release of Darrin Doyle's The Dark Will End the Dark!

Check out one of the stories found in the collection here:

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Move over, mermaid fans! Make room for Selkie fiction. K. Stephens's By the Dark 'O the Moon is a deliciously slow-burning tale of maternal fury, folklore, and the saltwater price of stolen things. This isn’t a love story. It’s a reckoning.

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Beastly Bodies While presenting stories that may initially seem to explore aspects and struggles of the familiar, relatively common, or trials of everyday life, the fifteen short stories in The Dark Will End The …

Some love for Darrin Doyle's collection, which drops tomorrow!!

"...stories that depict, to different degrees, the dark, grotesque, strange, and/or weird aspects of a human, or supernatural, body in a way that delivers a punchy, shocking effect..."

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What I Read in September As the end of the year creeps closer, the time seems to just fly by, doesn't it? I didn't read as many books as last month, but I am clocki...

Nothing like kicking off the month with a banger and ending it with one too! Come check out what I read in September:

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Cool interview w/ Lisa Hasleton & Darrin Doyle about the 10th anniversary edition of his collection The Dark Will End the Dark

"While the short story itself has a tighter boundary than a novel, within a series of short stories the range is much wider."

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The Dark Will End the Dark Check out The Dark Will End the Dark - <b>A group of tugboat passengers grapples with a disturbing loss. A record-holding hiccuper confronts his condition-and a troubling secret. A wife wonders what t...

Are you between books and not sure what to read next? Looking for something that vibes best with fall? Let me get Darrin Doyle's collection The Dark Will End The Dark into your hands! The stories are dark and strange and sorted by body parts! (out 10/7)

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