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A.J. Franks

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AJ Franks is an American author and playwright. He has authored more than thirty short stories, including "We All Scream" which is featured in Shallow Waters Volume 6: A Flash Fiction Anthology by Crystal Lake Publishing.

His debut horror collection, Keep You Cold: Chilling Tales, was a multi-category finalist in the American Book Fest 2019 Best Book Awards. The follow-up collection, Colder in Hell: More Chilling Tales is now available.

He wrote the stage play, Bereavement, which debuted at the 2015 Fertile Ground Festival and was a semi-finalist in FiLMLaB’s 2013 Script-to-Screen contest with his original short screenplay, Sometime Over Coffee. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. ...more

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	The Boy with the Spider Face 3.82 avg rating — 66 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
	Shallow Waters Vol. 8 by Monique Snyman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), R.B. Wood (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Winn (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021	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
	Shallow Waters, Vol. 6 by Joe Mynhardt (Editor), Jonathan Winn (Goodreads Author), Mark Allan Gunnells (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 17 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
	Whispers from Beyond: A Showcase of Dark Poetry by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author), Maxwell I. Gold (Goodreads Author), Angela Yuriko Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 6 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
	Keep You Cold: Chilling Tales (The Chilling Tales Series Book 1) 4.67 avg rating — 3 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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