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Shaun Hutson, James Herbert, Richard Stark, Richard Laymon

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Steve Stark is the author of the novel “A Hot Dose of Hell” and the anthology “Violent Ends”. An avid fan of crime and horror fiction, he tends to write a mixture of both. Steve draws inspiration from a misspent youth on the English coast and an imagination fuelled by 80’s video nasties and pulp paperbacks.

His short stories have been published by Slaughterhouse Press, Punk Noir Magazine and Hellbound Books while his horror-related articles can be found at RedSun Magazine, Horrorworks and Whatculture. Steve has appeared on several YouTube book channels such as Molly Macabre’s Where The Macabre Things Are, Arron Hook’s book reviews, Beardofdarkness and the Red-Pilled Fiction Factory. You can also find him on Twitter and instagram.

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	A Hot Dose Of Hell 4.60 avg rating — 53 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
	HellBound Books' Anthology of Splatterpunk (HellBound Books Anthologies of Splatterpunk Book 1) by Carlton Herzog (Goodreads Author), Scotty Milder (Goodreads Author), Kenneth Amenn 3.62 avg rating — 55 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
	Violent Ends 4.74 avg rating — 27 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
	Broadswords Battle-Axes Barbarians (Slaughterhouse Press Anthologies Book 4) by Brian Berry, David Irons (Goodreads Author), Coy Hall (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 11 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
	Maximum Firepower: An ’80s Action Anthology by Danielle Yeager (Editor), Brian Berry, David Irons (Goodreads Author) 4.88 avg rating — 8 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
	Shopping List 3: 21 Tales of Terror! by Richard Raven, Megan E. Morales, Alizure Indigo 4.63 avg rating — 8 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
	Crime Pays: The Darkest Side of Crime by Theresa Scott-Matthews (Editor), Matthew Wilson, Matthew McKiernan 3.80 avg rating — 5 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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Get Carter (Jack Carter, #1)

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

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“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
― Rod Serling

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“Closure is bullshit.”
― James Ellroy

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

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