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D.E. McCluskey

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Born

Liverpool , The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.dammaged.com

Twitter

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Genre

Horror, Thriller, Fantasy

Influences

Stephen King, James Herbert

Member Since

April 2017

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I love horror, and I love Christmas. Some would say that the two are not mutually associated, I would tell you different.

I started writing at Christmas, back in the days of yore. I was reading The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore to my daughter who was too excited to sleep. But, I used my secret weapon, my boring voice she was soon catching the right amount of zzzzz's... As I tiptoed out of the room, giving Santa the space he needed to do his bit, I thought to myself, you know what? I could write something like that...

So I did...

The good Behaviour Act was written, the first story in Interesting Tymes, my very first publication.

I live in sunny Liverpool in the UK with my partner and daughters, I used to work in IT but don' ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 8,793 ratings · 2,364 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare 3.95 avg rating — 2,890 ratings — 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
	Zola 3.36 avg rating — 3,109 ratings — 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
	Cravings : An Extreme Horror Novelette 3.55 avg rating — 697 ratings — 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 Twelve: A ghost story 4.04 avg rating — 325 ratings — 6 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
	Reboot: A Cosmic Horror 3.81 avg rating — 196 ratings — 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
	Crack really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2018 — 6 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 Contract by D.E. McCluskey (Goodreads Author), C. William Giles 3.71 avg rating — 148 ratings — 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 Stinky Stump (DE McCluskey Books Book 2) 4.08 avg rating — 124 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 Special Stuff (DE McCluskey Books Book 1) 4.13 avg rating — 122 ratings — 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
	Z: A Love Story: A wonderfully gory romantic comedy with zombies 4.03 avg rating — 78 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

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D.E. McCluskey's Blog: Dammaged Blog, the boring life of a writer

March 2023

The good news is that I haven't changed... Im still the same skint, boring, middle aged bloke that I have always been.

However, I do have a lot more books written than I did the last time I wrote on this blog.

I have also embraced the medium of short stories and have been published in a few anthologies. Happy days.

This is a brief blog, just to let anyone know who might be reading this that I have Read more of this blog post »

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Series by D.E. McCluskey

The Contract (2 books)
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D.E. McCluskey (Goodreads Author),

C William Giles

3.85 avg rating — 180 ratings

Brownmoor (2 books)
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D.E. McCluskey (Goodreads Author)

4.84 avg rating — 25 ratings

The Glimmer Saga (3 books)
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D.E. McCluskey (Goodreads Author)

4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings

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HEARTBEAT 2: IT’S IN THE BLOOD C Extreme Spencer is BACK and his bigger, badder, and just downright horribler (I made that word up I think), than ever. Spencer survived the stabbing at the end of the last book (not a spoiler as… well there wouldn’t hav ...more
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This is a cold WWII short story. You can feel the wind blowing through you as you read about the deserter nazis on the western front. Freezing cold and vulnerable they come across a small cabin and take refuge. The captain takes charge… until it all st ...more
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*BOOK REVIEW* AMONG THE MISTS - ML RAYNER A group of friends go on an adventure and get a lot more than they bargained for along the way. You know that time, when you were fifteen and you’d just watched STAND BY ME and you and your mates decided to ...more
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I’ll Prey for You SIERRA WAFF I’ve never read anything by this author before now… and to be honest I still haven’t as I listened to this on audiobook. I do enjoy a good revenge story. Actually I LOVE a good revenge story, and I think we have one here… ...more
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FAR FROM THE TREE - Rob Parker This book was set in Warrington, in Cheshire. I loved this because I worked in Warrington for years and I could envision all the locations, and knew where they were talking about. It also goes into Liverpool, and once ag ...more
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“But it was what her baby needed, and it was what her baby was going to get; besides, she wanted it herself now. Lifting the dripping turd to her mouth, she opened her wet lips.”
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“The name Anthony gave their child, their son, was Gordon. His name was Gordon Zola!”
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“Just as the baby was being wrapped back up, its little face went bright red, and it looked like it was forcing something out. A black, sticky substance slid down the baby’s leg. Sarah’s eyes went wide, and her mouth filled with saliva…”
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