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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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1.) I am contemplating putting all of my novels (even the many unpublished ones) up on Amazon in Kindle format. 

At least them maybe some people will read what I've written. 

They will be sold for $1 (as profit is not really my concern... though it would be nice to live off of my writing... it'd be even nicer to be so financially endowed that I wouldn't have to worry or work again... jus

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Diary of a Film
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The New Emotional Intelligence
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Diary of a Film
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Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne
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Last Rites
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A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron
A Dog's Perfect Christmas
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The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler
The Nothing That Is (Mr. Dinosaur #1)
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Aliens vs. Avengers by Jonathan Hickman
Aliens vs. Avengers
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The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling
The Only Pirate at the Party
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Erik’s Quotes

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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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