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Alistair Rey

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Genre

Fiction, Horror

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Jean Lorrain, Robert Aickman, Thomas Pynchon, Shirley Jackson, Ramesy ...more

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January 2016

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Alistair Rey is an author of dark sepculative fiction. His style has been categorized at different times as bizarro fiction, literary horror, and the new weird, drawing comparisons with writers such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Aickman. He currently resides in the United Kingdom.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 66 ratings · 19 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Nightside Codex by Justin A. Burnett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian Evenson, Stephen Jones 3.62 avg rating — 26 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
	Transcendent by Anthony S. Buoni (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alisha Costanzo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jefferson Retallack (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Art of Ghost Writing 4.71 avg rating — 7 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
	Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, No. 2, March 2022 by Wayne Kyle Spitzer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kurt Newton (Goodreads Author), James Harper 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	A Darkness Visible: Explorations of Horror in the Postmodern by G.M. Miller, Michael Cohen, Jonathan Sims 4.33 avg rating — 6 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
	A Celebration of Storytelling by G.D. Deckard (Author, Editor), Han Adcock (Goodreads Author), Justin Boote (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Home Sweet Home: A Millhaven Anthology by Jeffrey L. Blehar (Goodreads Author), Billy Lyons, Victoria Dalpe (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Art of Ghost Writing 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	Suspense Unimagined: An Anthology of Suspense, Thrillers, and Nightmares by Karen T. Newman (Editor), Paul L. Metheney (Illustrator), Blake Jessop (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018	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
	Peculiar Monstrosities 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Alistair Rey and 1 other person liked Milt Theo's review of The Art of Ghost Writing: "Although Alistair Rey’s ‘The Art of Ghost Writing’ is a short story collection, it is by no means short, coming in at fourteen stories, with absolutely no fillers! The abundance of quality stunned me, and in the end, I had to pick favorites simply by" Read more of this review »
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Alistair Rey and 1 other person liked Milt Theo's review of A Terror That Devours The World (A Sequence of Waking Nightmares Book 3): "A high-quality creepypasta collection of 22 tales, wit terrific writing and, most important of all, original premises and novel ideas! What's more, a couple of the stories deal brilliantly with transphobia, showing great empathy and displaying a soli" Read more of this review »
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Alistair Rey and 3 other people liked Milt Theo's review of PHOBOPHOBIA; An Anthology of Raw Terror: "Phobias as an anthology theme have been pretty much done to death, so I was very curious about any new ideas "Phobophobia" had to offer. I shouldn't have worried: although there were some stories I hated, and some I was indifferent to, the book is cr" Read more of this review »
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