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Rebecca Rowland

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Horror, Suspense, Nonfiction

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Praised by Rue Morgue Magazine as a “dark fiction talent who deftly wed[s] hardcore horror and true, affecting pathos,” Rebecca Rowland is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author and a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor. She is co-founder of the Literary Nasties, awards given annually to the best in transgressive and misfit fiction. Cemetery Dance stated that her fiction “reeks of The Twilight Zone in all the best ways” and that she is “easily one of the best short story writers today.”

She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers, and having lived in Massachusetts for most of her life, she chooses to set most of her fiction there. Despite earning graduate degrees in English, Education, and In ...more

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	Eminence Front 3.50 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2026 — 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
	American Cannibal by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Holly Rae Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2023 — 5 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
	White Trash and Recycled Nightmares by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author), Mary SanGiovanni (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.93 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Optic Nerve 4.11 avg rating — 94 ratings — 6 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
	Shagging the Boss 4.25 avg rating — 69 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
	The View Master by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author), Michael Aloisi (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felice Picano (contributor), Greg Herren (contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight 3.96 avg rating — 52 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
	Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, & Madness: Twenty Tales of Halloween by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.R. Pepper (Contributor), George Plank (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Shadowy Natures by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee Rozelle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), C.W. Blackwell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 36 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

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“Every time I think about it, it makes me happy. Do you think I’m a monster?”
― Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

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“Human bodies wear down," he continued . "They give out. No one is immortal, not without help. All writers wish to live forever, don't they? Even if they won't admit it. They vomit up these sacred parts of themselves, wrap those shards in paper, and pray the remnants will exist long after they are decomposing in the grave.”
― Rebecca Rowland, Shagging the Boss

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“That afternoon, she thought momentarily of those 1950s B-movies with alien invaders who inhabited unsuspecting human hosts.”
― Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

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