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Perry Ruhland

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New Story "Portable Altar" in God's Cruel Joke

"Portable Altar", my stab at cyberpunk, is up now in God's Cruel Joke. https://www.godscrueljokelit.com/ruhl...

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Average rating: 4.01 · 538 ratings · 131 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Book of Queer Saints: Volume I by Mae Murray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Richard (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), James Bennett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2022 — 5 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
	Beyond the Book of Eibon by Perry Ruhland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Astrid Anne Rose (Editor), Adam Cesare (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 36 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
	Vastarien: Vol. 4, Issue 2 by Jon Padgett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul L. Bates (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Christa Carmen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 26 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
	Weird Horror, Issue 8, Spring 2024 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aimee Ogden (Goodreads Author), Alison Moore 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Torture Gardens 4.58 avg rating — 19 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
	Vastarien: Vol. 7, Issue 0 by Jon Padgett (Goodreads Author) (editor), Richard Gavin, Dave Felton (contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 19 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
	Chthonic Matter Quarterly: Spring 2023 (Vol. 1, Issue 1) by C.M. Muller (Editor), Luciano Marano, Charles Wilkinson 4.06 avg rating — 16 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 Last Nautilean and Other Seaside Phantasmagoria by Perry Ruhland (Goodreads Author), Sam W. (Illustrator) 4.83 avg rating — 12 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
	Industry 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2020	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
	Chthonic Matter Quarterly: Summer 2025 (Vol. 3, Issue 2) by C.M. Muller (Editor), Tim Waggoner (Goodreads Author), Bert S.G. (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 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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Perry Ruhland and 1 other person liked Corvyn Appleby's review of Beloved: "i've read other toni morrison books, but none of the other toni morrison books i've read have a stretch where it turns into a sarah kane play for a bit. canonical american gothic!!!!!"
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Perry’s Quotes

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

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“Surely someday she'd deserve the heaven of the crooked where you only get in if you're warped.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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“Pain can work from the outside in. I mean that sometimes what you see is pain. Pain in its cruelest, purest form.”
― Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door

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“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

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“How can the disease be cured of itself?' you asked them. 'My body — a tumor that was once delivered from the body of another tumor, a lump of disease that is always boiling with its own disease. And my mind — another disease, the disease of a disease. Everywhere my mind sees the disease of other minds and other bodies, these other organisms that are only other diseases, an absolute nightmare of the organism.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco