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Lex Young

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Born

in The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.lexyoung-author.co.uk/

Genre

Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction

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Lex Young is a horror writer hailing from Wiltshire, UK, who also likes to merge into the genre of crime and sci-fi.

Lex's first publication, A Christmas Number One, hit #1 in two separate Kindle store charts during its first month of release, and was also featured on BBC Radio in 2022.

His follow up story, V: Garcia , is currently averaging a review score of 4.9/5* on the Kindle store.

Most recently, his short story collection, Silent Fright, became a bestseller on the Kindle store.
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Average rating: 3.91 · 327 ratings · 62 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Silent Fright: A collection of chilling Christmas short stories by Lex Young (Goodreads Author), Mason Crundell 3.63 avg rating — 157 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
	Festive Fears: Thrilling & chilling Christmas short stories by Lex Young (Goodreads Author), Mason Crundell 3.92 avg rating — 62 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
	A Christmas Number One 4.43 avg rating — 44 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
	Tech The Halls: Twisty Christmas tales of tech horror by Lex Young (Goodreads Author), Murphy Gray (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 44 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
	V: Garcia 4.20 avg rating — 20 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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Th1rt3en (Eddie Flynn, #4)

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The audiobook weird long pauses between every piece of dialogue really got to me so I’m giving up. My ‘do not DNF for the rest of 2026’ rule is in tatters… but this was an audiobook read so I won’t count it…
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