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J.L. Scritchfield

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J.L. Scritchfield was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife and their three children. The Pale Shadow is his first novel worth reading.

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Where Shadows Bleed

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Following and perhaps capitalizing on the “1980s group of kids” trend, The Saturday Night Ghost Club revolves around one man’s memory of his twelfth summer. The book has drawn comparisons to Stranger Things, and while there is a friend group and it does take place in the 1980s, I found that the similarities ended there. A more apt, if not current, comparison would be the Goonies, especially consid

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