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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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	The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare 3.94 avg rating — 3,543 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
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	Cravings : An Extreme Horror Novelette 3.52 avg rating — 747 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
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	Crack 3.94 avg rating — 197 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
	Reboot: A Cosmic Horror 3.80 avg rating — 203 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 Contract by D.E. McCluskey (Goodreads Author), C. William Giles 3.70 avg rating — 150 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
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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

3.84 avg rating — 184 ratings

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

4.77 avg rating — 26 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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“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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