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	Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephanie M. Wytovich (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Clive Barker (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2020 — 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 Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Neugebauer (Goodreads Author), Sarah Read (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Welcome to the Show by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Skipp, Mary SanGiovanni (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Shadows Over Main Street by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ramsey Campbell (Foreword) 3.68 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary A. Braunbeck 4.17 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	For When the Veil Drops by Christian Larsen, Doug Murano (Goodreads Author), C. Bryan Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 3 by Doug Murano (Goodreads Author), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 31 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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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

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Doug Murano liked Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)'s review of Not a Speck of Light: Stories: "As I have come to discover in reading a collection of Laird Barron's short stories, it is very rare, very rare that you come across one that isn't a hard punch to the gut. This is some seriously dark, scary, and messed up horror that the man writes. " Read more of this review »
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Doug Murano and 43 other people liked Char's review of Not a Speck of Light: "Laird Barron is a titan of modern prose, especially when he's writing short stories. The words he chooses, the pictures he paints, combine together for a phenomenal experience called Not A Speck of Light. And the title is true: this volume is chock f" Read more of this review »
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Doug Murano and 12 other people liked Marguerite Turley's review of Kill Your Darling: "We follow Glenn and Carol Partridge who lost their son Billy 40 years ago in a horrific way. This is a beautiful and hushed study on how the couples grief has affected them individually and as a couple over the years. They are perpetually haunted by " Read more of this review »
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“Marriage changes things; it’s like a mutation. Sometimes your relationship gets superpowers, but sometimes it goes malignant.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

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“He saw the basics of her, the very base, and that’s what he wanted. Not the trappings. Not the prettiness. He wanted the deep and dark and ugly. The most honest and primal parts.”
― Doug Murano, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

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“The world is a mirror,” he said. “What we see is a reflection of who we are.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

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