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Bryan Smith

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Horror, Crime

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Stephen King, Edward Lee, Quentin Tarantino, hardboiled pulp crime nov ...more

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Bryan Smith is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than forty horror and crime books, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, as well as The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, and many more. Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, "The best zombie novel I've ever read."

68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting.

Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Com ...more

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Preorder DEPRAVED HALLOWEEN

My next novel, DEPRAVED HALLOWEEN, is now available for preorder on Amazon. This is the fifth book in my popular DEPRAVED series. This latest installment is designed to be read as a direct "sequel in spirit" to the first book. It'll be out on October 1 of this year.

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Depraved
3.80 avg rating — 2,705 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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The Killing Kind
3.95 avg rating — 1,157 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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The Freakshow
3.66 avg rating — 1,179 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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House Of Blood
3.43 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions
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Depraved 2
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Deathbringer
3.63 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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Slowly We Rot
3.89 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
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The Unseen
3.63 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions
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The Late Night Horror Show
3.74 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions
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Soultaker
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“This has been an interesting fucking week.”
― Bryan Smith, Surrounded By Bastards
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“Like Doctor Who’s TARDIS, or like the house in that book Anna had loaned him once, the one where a bunch of young assholes got lost while driving through a mountain range and wound up at the creepy manor home of a monster disguised as a human.”
― Bryan Smith, The Halloween Bride
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“Judging from the molten aspect of the diarrhea, it’d probably been something Mexican,”
― Bryan Smith, Surrounded By Bastards
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