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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
David Peak’s Followers (277)
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David Peak
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Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Livia Llewellyn, Christopher Slatsky, Nadi
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Member Since
September 2011
El Espectáculo del Vacío
The Spanish translation of The Spectacle of the Void is now available from Materia Oscura Editorial. The life of this book continues to amaze me. When I first wrote it, I never expected more than a handful of people would read it, and now it seems like a lot of readers find my fiction through my nonfiction. You just never know. I’m super grateful for everyone involved, Gary J. Shipley most of all.
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Corpsepaint
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2018
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5 editions
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The World Below
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2022
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2 editions
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The Spectacle of the Void
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2014
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4 editions
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The River Through the Trees
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2013
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4 editions
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Eyes in the Dust
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2016
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3 editions
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Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories
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Glowing in the Dark
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2012
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2 editions
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The Destruction Loops
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2010
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2 editions
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Museum of Fucked
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2009
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Surface Tension
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2009
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3 editions
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David’s Recent Updates
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David Peak
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"The depth of fear, self-loathing
paranoia and visceral cosmic futility on display in David Peak's work are among the absolute best characteristics of works being published in modern weird horror. Another terrifyingly self aware protagonist sets off o" Read more of this review » |
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"I loved Ha's "Alabama Circus Punk" (in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, and was very excited to come across this. The stories I've read are a kind of dark, open-ended science fiction that address real issues in our messy, broken world; the"
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David Peak
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Perry Ruhland's
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New Story "The Illuminated Tower" in minor literature[s]
""The Illuminated Tower", an investigation into the content of and community around an uncanny CD-ROM game, is up now at minor literature[s]. Read it here: https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/18/the-illuminated-tower-perry-ruhland/"
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“There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.”
― Fugue State
― Fugue State
“Memories die as soon as they are plucked from their surroundings, they burst, lose color, lose suppleness, stiffen like corpses. All that remains are shells with translucent edges. Half-erased brain platelets are a slippery terrain, deceptive. One’s mental archive is locked, it languishes in the dark. The past is riddled with holes, souvenirs can’t help here. Everything must be thrown away. Everything. And perhaps everyone as well.”
― Belladonna
― Belladonna
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”
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