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Horror, Crime, Paranormal

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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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Average rating: 4.26 · 184 ratings · 91 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Hot Dose Of Hell 4.60 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
	HellBound Books' Anthology of Splatterpunk (HellBound Books Anthologies of Splatterpunk Book 1) by Carlton Herzog (Goodreads Author), Scotty Milder (Goodreads Author), Kenneth Amenn 3.57 avg rating — 63 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 4.73 avg rating — 33 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
	The Writer's Block: An Anthology Of Horror by Eric P. Bishop, JM Guarnieri, A.M. Adair (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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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Feral Bloom

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Island

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Steve Stark and 7 other people liked Kelly\| Just Another Horror Reader 's review of Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2): "I waited way too long to read this because I didn’t want to ruin how I felt about The Shining. I’m so glad I did because it’s one of the most amazing sequels I’ve ever read! Easy 5⭐️!"
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Steve Stark and 1 other person liked Jan Miklaszewicz's review of The Plastic Valley Monster: "A dark, dense, excoriating takedown of the ultra-wealthy, privileged, false-pious evangelical set. If you’re wanting a quick, light read, you can give it a pass, but if you fancy a deep dive into the pathology of a certain breed of narcissistic psych" Read more of this review »
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Steve Stark and 7 other people liked Eamonn Bradley's review of Follower Count: "This was a great read from start to finish. Very clean and flowing prose, and executed so well. There’s a killer on the loose, get 500 followers daily or get erased. Great concept and an ending I didn’t see coming! Recommend"
Jul 12, 2026 02:28PM · see review
Steve Stark made a comment on My appearance on a Tale of Two Scribes " Liis wrote: "Steve! When's Nice Bloody Work coming?" Aiming for August. Just got to nail down my cover artist on a final version then it’ll be unleashe ...more "
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Steve Stark made a comment on Brendon Lowe’s review of Hell Hound " Really enjoyed this one. I need to check out some more Ken Greenhall. "
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Steve’s Quotes

“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

tags: fantasy, impossible, improbable, possible, probable, science-fiction

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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

tags: infinity, perception

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