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Martin Roberts

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Born

in Stoke on Trent, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.lordfroggy.wordpress.com

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Lordfroggy

Genre

Horror, Paranormal, Mystery

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Sherlock Holmes, B&W movies, John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream and sound ...more

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January 2009

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Brought up on a steady diet of blood and oatcakes by feral pigeons, I quickly learned to retreat from humanity in to a world of make believe.

I read a lot of books.

I listened to all sorts of music.

I adored films.

Eventually I made it to University and studied film, earning a degree in that subject, and made a BBC Award nominated short film.

I put down the camera and picked up a pen, and began to write short stories.

They sold, which means you can now read them too.

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Why horror?

Back in the 1980’s, when I first got into watching horror films and reading horror novels etc., people always asked ‘why do you watch/read that stuff?’

[image error]Not gory, though I did have this quad on my bedroom wall…

I was a total addict to everything horror too, I brought all the magazines I could afford, I’d hit the local video shops up for free posters. I started buying soundtracks, which I

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	HAMSTERS! A Fabulous Anthology by Martin Roberts (Goodreads Author), M.C. O'Neill (Goodreads Author), Wol-vriey (Goodreads Author) 4.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	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
	Cinema Macabre by Mark Morris, Jonathan Ross (Introduction), Martin Roberts (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	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
	The 13 Ghosts of Christmas by Simon Marshall-Jones (Editor), Thana Niveau (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jan Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	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
	The Grimorium Verum by Dean M. Drinkel (Editor), Tim Dry (Goodreads Author), Raven Dane (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	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
	The Bestiarum Vocabulum by Dean M. Drinkel (Editor), Lily Childs (Goodreads Author), Nerine Dorman (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	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
	Chromatics by Dean M. Drinkel (Editor), John Gilbert, Anthony Cowin (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	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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