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Michael Sudduth

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in Mountain View, The United States

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Thriller, Horror, Paranormal

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Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Camus, Stephen King, Peter Straub

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Michael Sudduth (D.Phil., M.Phil., University of Oxford) is a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University, where he's taught philosophy and religion since 2005.

Although specializing in the philosophy of religion, his interests range broadly over epistemology, philosophy of science, the psychology of religious experience, eastern philosophy and spirituality, life after death, and philosophy in literature and film.

Michael's interests also include the field of psychology, especially cognitive, personality, and abnormal psychology. This interest evolved out of his earlier exploration of eastern spiritual practices and western therapeutic modalities.

Growing up on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and 1970s horror films, Michael has had a l ...more

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	The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology (Routledge Philosophy of Religion Series) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009 — 4 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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“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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“Writing is the act of finding out what I think.”
― Stephen King

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“The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive.”
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“Holy shit! That’s a vampire. He’s writing a vampire novel. And I thought, this is the most tired cliche that anybody could dredge up out of the genre, and he just made it jump.”
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