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Duane Pesice

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Born

in Caribou, Me, The United States

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http://moderan.wordpress.com

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Science Fiction, Horror, Crime

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Hunter S. Thompson, HP Lovecraft, Jim Thompson, Roger Zelazny, Harlan ...more

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Duane is the author of a small army of stories under a slew of pseudonyms. Under his own byline he has published pieces in a number of of hitherto-unrelated places. He writes weird fiction and baseball articles and has a book available.
Duane also records under the band name "moderan", and is indebted to the late David R. Bunch for the use of that name and concept.
He lives in southern Arizona with his guitars, books, and cats. ...more

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	A Walk in a Darker Wood by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Walker, A.P. Sessler (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Test Patterns: Creature Features by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Orrin Grey (Goodreads Author), Jeffrey Thomas (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Test Patterns by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), John Claude Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Before Crazytown 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	32 White Horses on a Vermillion Hill: Volume One by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Farah Rose Smith (Goodreads Author), Matthew A. St. Cyr 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Phantasmagorical Promenade (Planet X Pulps Book 2) by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author), William Tea (Goodreads Author), Russell Smeaton (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 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
	Caravans Awry (Planet X Pulps Book 1) by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author), William Tea (Goodreads Author), K.A. Opperman (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Test Patterns Teaser #1 by Duane Pesice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Ashley Dioses (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 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
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Halloween greetings and solicitations

Well, 2022 is continuing on. It almost did for me as I caught the COVID earlier in the year and went on the vent for a bit, but I recovered (almost completely). Still have the usual health complaints and I’m due for glaucoma testing next month. Hooray.

Sadly, while I didn’t pass, my micropress imprint Oxygen Man Books did, as the NIY anthology succumbed to bad health and rising distribution costs.

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32 White Horses on a Vermillion Hill (2 books)
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“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.”
― Thomas Berger, Little Big Man

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“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“ABIGAIL GARDNER NÉE Cuzak was sitting on the bathroom floor, thinking about the relationship that mice in mazes have with death, when a many-splendored light shot down from the stars like a touch of divine Providence.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, She Walks in Shadows

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