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S.J. Shank is a lover of dead languages and collapsed empires. His writing inhabits the grim borderlands between fantasy, horror and historical fiction. He is the author of Our Lady of Holy Slaughter, The Knave of Graves and Mountain Fast.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 472 ratings · 253 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Our Lady of Holy Slaughter 3.92 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2026 — 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
	Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror 3.89 avg rating — 111 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
	The Knave of Graves: A Dark Fantasy 4.35 avg rating — 73 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
	This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution by Coy Hall (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.M. Thor, Josh Reynolds 4.58 avg rating — 48 ratings — 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
	Rare Specimen and Other Stories 4.08 avg rating — 26 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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S.J. Shank and 2 other people liked Susï Schmölz's review of Our Lady of Holy Slaughter: "Medieval horror is my new favorite genre, I love the gloomy atmosphere, the sense of danger and despair at every step. This book is amazing, I truly enjoy every page, it was a bit of a challenge for me, not being a native english speaker, for there we" Read more of this review »
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S.J. Shank liked Jessica Montalvo's review of Our Lady of Holy Slaughter: "This book was a pretty quick read for me who has just started getting into books after a few years, and i honestly could’ve finished it sooner, but work can sometimes change your plans. Now, I love that the narrative immersed me into how dreadful, da" Read more of this review »
Oct 20, 2026 07:35PM · see review
S.J. Shank liked Lance's review of Our Lady of Holy Slaughter: "Ever since I first saw this being promoted by Shank on his socials, I've wanted to read this. The concept, the setting, the pitch: it all appealed to me. Plus some slightly black metal-coded-by-way-of-stippled-eastern-Euro-tattoo-style cover art? Sig" Read more of this review »
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S.J. Shank rated a book it was amazing Pale Grey Idol, Issue Zero by Brian Evenson	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
Highly recommended. These "strange and uncanny tales" offer a perfect distillation of displacement and dread. ...more
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S.J. Shank rated a book it was amazing The Butcher of Nazareth by David Scott Hay (Goodreads Author)	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
I'm happy to say that The Butcher of Nazareth gruesomely delivers on its electric premise. The story follows one of the killers who participated in the biblical Slaughter of Innocents. (For those of you who didn't attend Sunday school, that was when K ...more
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S.J. Shank rated a book it was amazing The Doll & The Crow by A.W. Saint (Goodreads Author)	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 Doll & the Crow is the perfect gothic fable to read in one setting. With their lush prose, A.W. Saint recombines gothic iconography to tell an original fairy tale of dark yearning. Tragic, hopeful and uncanny. Recommended!
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“The trees grew up and around the village and told a tale of all that might be lost to man and how quickly the forest might conquer his works.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

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“You never knew whom not to trust.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror

tags: gothic-novel, horror, trust

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“I cannot describe to you what it is to burn alive. To lose one's hair in an appalling gust, to hear the fat sizzle beneath one's crackling skin. To have one's vision filed with red and then black as one's eyeballs burst. The pain is indistinguishable from the flames. The flames, they are a scream. A chorus roaring from every pore, singing agony. Agony - no, the notion is too bounded, the name inadequate fro that mystery which transmutes a live layer by layer, to matter.”
― S.J. Shank, Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror