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McGlue
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Ann Leckie
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (New Edition)
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Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
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No Roy Scheider, but still good

The Guns of Santa Sangre - Eric Red

Full review at ://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/the-guns-of-santa-sangre/">Bookgasm:

 

Eric Red kicked in the doors and smacked me around in the mid-1980s. His scripts for NEAR DARK and, in particular, THE HITCHER were the stuff of geek dreams. His writing had precision-tooled, B-movie mechanics and plots built with a merciless, gleeful desire to give the people what they want in ways that surprised us.

 

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I’ve kept up with his film work, but I had no idea he’s been producing horror and other pulp fictions on the page for some time, too. Samhain Publishing now releases a short novel that displays a characteristic panache.

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