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Tom Rimer

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Tom Rimer is the author of THE GLOWING Trilogy, MALEVOLENT NEVERS, ODIOUS GHOULS, and BUOYGEIST. His work can also be found in a number of anthologies - including 13 Tales to Give You Night Terrors (2015), The Nightmare Never Ends (2023), Dreamcaught (2025), and Samhain Screams (2025). He is a member of the HWA.

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BUOYGEIST - now available

It's harpoonin' time! BUOYGEIST is here! My supernatural slasher, set in 1988 within the walls of a video rental store, is ready to send some October chills up your spine. Don't walk, RUN. He's coming for you.

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Published on October 03, 2024 11:20 • Tags: horror

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Average rating: 4.08 · 384 ratings · 154 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Malevolent Nevers 4.28 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	13 Tales To Give You Night Terrors by Troy H. Gardner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Erin Callahan (Goodreads Author), Tom Rimer (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 115 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
	Odious Ghouls 4.43 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2023	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
	Buoygeist 4.33 avg rating — 55 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
	The Glowing (The Glowing, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 28 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
	The Nightmare Never Ends: An Anthology of Horror by Jennifer Bernardini (Goodreads Author), Brian Bowyer, Elford Alley 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2023 — 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 Glowing: 2 (The Glowing, #2) 4.78 avg rating — 9 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
	Samhain Screams by Greg Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cameron Trost (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew R. Davis (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Dreamcaught by Ashley Anglin (Goodreads Author), Mariah Norris (Goodreads Author), Erika McCorkle (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 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
	The Glowing: 3 (The Glowing, #3) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020 — 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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Samhain Screams is the best Halloween anthology I have ever read. Full stop. I say this with some obvious bias, of course, as I do have a story in this collection. That said, as far as the rest of these tales, I went in blindly. Each one legitimately ...more
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Tom Rimer and 12 other people liked Christine Harrold's review of Malevolent Nevers: "Simi and his estranged dad, Abe, need to go back to Foxborough MA because Elma, the Ward matriarch, is about to die, and needs to “go over some things.” Elma appears to have been a gatekeeper for the beasts on the swamp and the whole town has relied o" Read more of this review »
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“Kam hadn't spoken much to Heath in the past few years, but whenever she had, she found him to be barbed and ready to wound.”
― Tom Rimer, The Glowing

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