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Rebecca Rowland

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Horror, Suspense, Fiction

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Rebecca Rowland is a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award finalist. She grew up in Western Massachusetts but spent her early adult life in the Boston area, and most of her fiction is set in those locations. She is the author of three fiction collections and a handful of novels and novellas, one of which, OPTIC NERVE, earned her a Godless 666 Award. Her speculative fiction and essays regularly appear in a variety of publications by progressive, independent presses.

An Active/voting member of the Horror Writers Association, Rebecca is the curator of seven anthologies and a horror cocktail book. UNBURIED: A COLLECTION OF QUEER DARK FICTION became an Amazon best-seller on its first day of release and features short stories by sixteen establish ...more

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	American Cannibal by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Holly Rae Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 167 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) 3.97 avg rating — 152 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 4.18 avg rating — 80 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
	Eminence Front 3.57 avg rating — 82 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
	Shagging the Boss 4.23 avg rating — 65 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
	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 View Master by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author), Michael Aloisi (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 57 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
	The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight 3.92 avg rating — 50 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 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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Rebecca rated a book it was amazing The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi (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 used to eschew “elder horror” because I quickly grew tired of elderly characters being portrayed as one-dimensional monsters or kooky lunatics: in other words, as the butt of the joke. (And yeah, Ty West, I’m looking at you.) Refreshingly, Autumn i ...more
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Here’s what I love about reading Ira Rat’s work: he is a visual artist as well, so his writing naturally mimics a piece of visual art. It doesn’t spoon-feed meaning and it doesn’t apologize, and it breathes, sweats, and oozes both the terrible beauty ...more
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Here’s what I love about reading Ira Rat’s work: he is a visual artist as well, so his writing naturally mimics a piece of visual art. It doesn’t spoon-feed meaning and it doesn’t apologize, and it breathes, sweats, and oozes both the terrible beauty ...more
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This is a genius of a novella. Anyone who has struggled with suicidal feelings or clinical depression will find that the world Waggoner paints is scarily close to home. I read this in one sitting as I could not put it down.
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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

tags: death, publisher, publishing, remembered, writer, writing

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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

tags: alien-invaders, aliens, b-movies, body-snatching, pod-people

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Rebecca’s Quotes

“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
― David Bowie

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