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Nicholas Kaufmann

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in New York City, The United States

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Horror, Urban Fantasy, Thriller

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Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-, Thriller Award-, Shirley Jackson Award-, and Dragon Award-nominated author of numerous books and stories. In addition to his own work, he has written for such properties as Zombies vs. Robots, The Rocketeer, and Warhammer. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 2,953 ratings · 592 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dying Is My Business (Trent, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 677 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
	Die and Stay Dead (Trent, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Chasing the Dragon 3.70 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2009 — 11 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 Hungry Earth 3.64 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Spawning Season by Nicholas Kaufmann (Goodreads Author), Ramón de Ocampo (Narrator) 3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2019	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 Child Foretold (Black Library Advent Calendar 2019 #11) 3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Stone Serpent 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — 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 Mind Worms (Dr. Laura Powell Book 3) 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — 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
	In the Shadow of the Axe 4.24 avg rating — 17 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
	General Slocum's Gold 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007 — 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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Dr. Laura Powell (3 books)
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Nicholas Kaufmann started reading Red X by David Demchuk (Goodreads Author)	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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Nicholas Kaufmann rated a book it was amazing Squid Teeth: A Tor Original by Sarah Langan (Goodreads Author)	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
A compelling novelette about creativity and what we lose when we commodify it. Sarah Langan is a master of creating authentic human characters, the kind you care about but who also make bad decisions sometimes or who act petty out of insecurity. She' ...more
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Nicholas Kaufmann rated a book really liked it The Night Carnival by John Urbancik (Goodreads Author)	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
Dreamy, weird, and surreal, John Urbancik's novella presents the reader with a tour through a dreamer's nightmare carnival. As such, there's not much in the way of plot, but there are characters to meet and mysteries to explore. Urbancik keeps the pr ...more
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Nicholas Kaufmann rated a book it was amazing X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont	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
Revisiting these groundbreaking issues of UNCANNY X-MEN after not having read them since the 1980s, I'm struck by what a great writer Chris Claremont is, and what an incredible collaborator he has in John Byrne. Sure, there's the inevitable clunky ex ...more
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Nicholas Kaufmann rated a book it was amazing I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)	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
Beautiful, funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER is one of those novels you don't want to end because you're not ready to say goodbye to the characters yet. That's how I felt about Stephen King's IT, too, and that's high pra ...more
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“You're telling me a shape-shifting demon just walked out onto Fifth Avenue and blended in with the crowd?" I asked. "Hailed a fucking cab after tearing everyone to pieces down here?”
― Nicholas Kaufmann, Die and Stay Dead

tags: demons, new-york-city, urban-life

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“It’s not as easy as it looks to come back from the dead.”
― Nicholas Kaufmann, Dying Is My Business

tags: inspirational, living, overcoming-obstacles

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“Oatmeal Face, Jawless, and the other revenants dragged me out of the van by the zip tie between my hands. The sharp plastic bit painfully into my wrists.
"All right, all right, I'm coming," I said. "Keep your faces on."
There was no reaction from any of them. Humor was wasted on the dead.”
― Nicholas Kaufmann, Die and Stay Dead

tags: humor, zombies

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Nicholas’s Quotes

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

tags: books, lending, library

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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