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Perry Ruhland

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New Story "Directions" in Keep Planning

“Directions”, a journey through the dark, is up now at Keep Planning.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 520 ratings · 128 reviews · 12 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) 3.96 avg rating — 356 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 4.56 avg rating — 18 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) 4.33 avg rating — 18 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 by C.M. Muller, Luciano Marano, Charles Wilkinson 4.13 avg rating — 15 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
	Pluto in Furs 2 by Scott Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Livia Llewellyn 3.50 avg rating — 4 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

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Perry Ruhland rated a book liked it Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw by Tatsuki Fujimoto	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 Public Safety arc is very good, and it undergoes a steady decline from there.
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Perry Ruhland liked Corvyn Appleby's review of An Invitation from a Crab: "was so so so struck by this. goes beyond examining and cataloging the odds and ends, the flotsam and jetsam, and reaches sort of a transcendent degree of observation where those incidental things are the very fabric of life itself. the more you look " Read more of this review »
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Perry Ruhland liked Corvyn Appleby's review of Wormwood: "indulgent sense of style carries this even through the occasional missteps (this has both the good kind of lovecraft homage and also the other kind) (a couple of the "crueler" images veer slightly into that sort of cartoony blunt-force puppet-show ho" Read more of this review »
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Perry Ruhland rated a book it was amazing The Assignment: or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers (Heritage of Sociology) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt	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’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