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Erik D. Harshman

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Born

in St. Louis, The United States

Genre

Fiction, Horror

Member Since

September 2011

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Erik D. Harshman is a high school English teacher and part-time college professor in St. Louis, Missouri (where he was born and raised). He is the author of six novels and fifteen screenplays. His work has appeared in Midnight Voices, Damnation Magazine and Dark Moon Digest.

While most of his screenwriting work in the horror genre, his literary work runs the gamut from horror to dark comedy to transgressive realism.

His primary inspirations are Poe, Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Vonnegut, Hemingway, Tim O'Brien, Patrick McGrath, James Herbert, Hawthorne, Dickens, Dostoevsky, James Baldwin, John Fante, David Sosnowski and William S. Burroughs.
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Erik D. Harshman's Blog

Situation Change

I just got back from a horror con in Chicago.

I have attended this particular con (Days of the Dead) ten times now.

And while I love cons, fandom and meeting my heroes... I am no longer content with just going to these cons as a star-struck fan.

I want to have my own table at these cons.

And not as one of those self-published indie horror authors, looking to sell a book or two and gain a new fan/read

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Average rating: 3.75 · 4 ratings · 3 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Humansville 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Dark Moon Digest 11 by Stan Swanson (Goodreads Author), Erik D. Harshman (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Shades of Darkness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	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 Murderers 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

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Erik’s Quotes

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

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“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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