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Luke Dumas

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Thriller, Horror, Suspense

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Luke Dumas is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing Tastes as Good, The Paleontologist, and A History of Fear.

He is the winner of a 2024 ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, was nominated for the Silver Falchion Award for Best Supernatural, and his work has been optioned for film and TV.

He received his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked in nonprofit philanthropy for more than a decade with organizations including San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the American Red Cross.

Luke was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he lives with his husband and dogs and works for a biomedical research institute.

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New novel NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD coming March 2026

I'm delighted to share that my third book, Nothing Tastes as Good: A Novel—a binge-worthy thriller about a weight loss treatment with potentially murderous side effects—is coming March 31, 2026 from Atria Books.

I'm salivating over the gorgeously icky cover design from Claire Sullivan. It’s delicious and nasty and oozing with evil—perfect for a literary thriller/horror about food, fat, and the weig Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.63 · 20,724 ratings · 4,711 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Paleontologist 3.49 avg rating — 9,973 ratings — published 2023 — 12 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
	Nothing Tastes as Good 3.81 avg rating — 6,171 ratings — published 2026 — 8 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 History of Fear 3.70 avg rating — 4,566 ratings — published 2022 — 9 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
	Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales by Dennis K. Crosby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), K.C. Grifant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Agranoff (Goodreads Author) 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — 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
	The Big Bad Book of Kaiju by Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Henry Herz (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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

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Deliciously wicked. Delightfully unhinged. Laugh-out-loud funny and weirdly beautiful. I adored every awful word.
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“but he didn’t want to be supported by fat people and the average-bodied White women who shouldered their way in; he wanted to be supported by the medical community who never stopped making him feel like he was on the brink of death and bringing society down with him.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

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“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push-and-pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

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“With Colleen’s passing, something fractured inside of Simon. Something like a bone—a part of him that, even if it managed to heal, would always bear evidence of its imperfection. A tiny part of him that would always be broken.”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

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Midnight Sun Ramsey Campbell

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“My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.”
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