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Pete Mesling

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Horror, Crime, Suspense

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Pete Mesling's silhouette can, on rare occasions, be glimpsed prowling the watery byways of Seattle, Washington, where he lives with his wife and daughter, whose nickname is taken from a character in a Boris Karloff film.

Publishing highlights include his debut short-story collection (None So Deaf—which garnered praise from such luminaries as Kealan Patrick Burke, Jay Bonansinga, Nancy Kilpatrick, John Everson, John R. Little, and Paul Kane—as well as his new collection Jagged Edges & Moving Parts.

Mesling has also had the pleasure of working directly with the late Richard Matheson on an online retrospective of his career in film and television. He has sold fiction and poetry to such publications as All-American Horror of the 21st Century, th ...more

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Average rating: 4.28 · 196 ratings · 69 reviews · 22 distinct works

	Night Terrors by Theresa Dillon, Stephanie Kincaid, Brian Barnett (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	HWA Poetry Showcase Volume III by David E. Cowen (Editor), Marge Simon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 22 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
	The Portable Nine 4.40 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
	Dig Two Graves: An Anthology Vol. II by Pete Mesling (Goodreads Author), Betty Rocksteady, David Owain Hughes (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Jagged Edges & Moving Parts 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	The Maker-Man of Merryville 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 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
	Fool’s Fire 4.33 avg rating — 6 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
	None So Deaf 4.17 avg rating — 6 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
	The Wages of Crime 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	Imperfect Lodgings it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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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Glad Men from Happy Boys ... or Else: A Review of Thomas Tryon's THE NIGHT OF THE MOONBOW

Some things in life make absolutely no sense. That Thomas Tryon isn’t a household name is one of them. I’m too young to know what it was like to watch him transition from film actor to man of letters, but it must have been deeply satisfying for him to make the transition as admirably as he did. There had to be doubters. It’s easy to imagine the cynicism that might have accompanied the shift. Maybe Read more of this blog post »

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Pete’s Quotes

“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“There's no delight the equal of dread.”
― Clive Barker, Dread [Graphic Novel]

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“Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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“A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.”
― Ben Marcus