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in Santa Cruz, The United States

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Crime, Horror

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C.W. Blackwell is an award-winning author from the Central Coast of California. His short stories have appeared with Shotgun Honey, Tough Magazine, Reckon Review, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dark Yonder, and Rock and a Hard Place Press. He is a 2x Derringer Award winner and 7x nominee. He was included on the Distinguished Author list in the 2024 Best American Mystery and Suspense collection. His folk horror novella Song of the Red Squire was published in 2022 from Nosetouch Press. His crime fiction novella Hard Mountain Clay was published in January 2023 from Shotgun Honey Books. His debut crime fiction collection Whatever Kills the Pain was released by Rock and a Hard Place Press in July 2025.

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	Appalachian Horror by Bo Chappell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), C.W. Blackwell (Goodreads Author), Tony Evans 3.66 avg rating — 337 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
	It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1 by Michelle River (Goodreads Author) (Author, Illustrator, Editor), Alanna Robertson-Webb (Editor), Mark Towse (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Welcome to the Funhouse by Kelly Brocklehurst (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jamie Stewart (Goodreads Author), Roxie Voorhees (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 146 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
	Hard Mountain Clay 4.51 avg rating — 91 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
	Dead Awake by Sarah Scutt (Editor), Stanley Wiater (Foreword), C.W. Blackwell (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 95 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
	Song of the Red Squire 4.25 avg rating — 84 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
	Moonlight & Misadventure: 20 Stories of Mystery & Suspense by Judy Penz Sheluk (Goodreads Author) (Editor), K.L. Abrahamson (Contributor), Sharon Hart Addy (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 72 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
	Whatever Kills the Pain 4.81 avg rating — 54 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
	River Street Rhapsody it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	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 Handful of Chicles and a Custom Nine (Guns + Tacos Book 21) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	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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“If there’s a miracle left to be had, maybe there’s somethin’ still alive way down deep where those treeroots once grew. Somethin’ twistin’ slow and easy through all that highcountry clay. Maybe it remembers what it was like to be an apple tree and it’s just a-waitin’ for this wretched age of humanity to end ‘fore it comes sproutin’ back.”
― C.W. Blackwell, Song of the Red Squire

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