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L. Andrew Cooper

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L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. His current project, The Middle Reaches, is a serialized epic of weird horror and dark fantasy on Amazon Kindle Vella. His latest release, Records of the Hightower Massacre, an LGBTQ+ horror novella co-authored with Maeva Wunn, imagines a near-future dystopia where anti-queer hate runs a program to "correct" deviants. Stains of Atrocity, his newest collection of stories, goes to uncomfortable psychological and visceral extremes. His latest novel, Crazy Time, combines literary horror and dark fantasy in a contemporary quest to undo what may be a divine curse. Other published works include novels Burning the Middle Ground and Descending Lines; short story collections Leaping ...more

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Bizarro World Got Me Dirty and Wet

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Note: Originally published in Dark Discoveries 33 (Autumn 2015): 28 – 30.

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	Records of the Hightower Massacre by L. Andrew Cooper (Goodreads Author), Maeva Wunn (Goodreads Author) 3.22 avg rating — 58 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
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Deborah Sheldon’s The Broonie and Other Dark Poems (Hiraeth Publishing, April 2025) stands out as a poetry collection in at least two ways that I quite like. As Sheldon explains in her introduction, first, “each poem is a deep dive into a specific po ...more
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