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Alan Loewen
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Born
in Easthampton, NY, The United States
November 01, 1954
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Opal Wine
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2012
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2 editions
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Dark Dreams and Darker Visions: Ten Stories of Dark Fantasy
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2013
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Come Into My Cellar: Darker Tales From A Cerebral Vault
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2015
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The Seven Sisters
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2014
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2 editions
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In Humor Most Odd: The Collected Silliness of Alan Loewen
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2012
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Rowan Dreaming
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In Search of the Creators
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Felidae and Other Stories
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Worlds of Mystery
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Patterns
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A Far Future Project (Gothic Romance Experiment)
Gothic romance is a genre that has always fascinated me, and I confess that, of the gothic romances I have read, few appeal to my sense of pleasure in completing a book. In case you are wondering, the definition of gothic romance is "a fiction genre that blends intense, passionate love stories with a dark, eerie, and suspenseful atmosphere. It focuses on emotional vulnerability, hidden secr Read more of this blog post »
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An Entertaining Creature Feature Two detectives in Arizona are called in to investigate a horrifying and bloody murder and the action keeps going with only the occasional breaks. The 24th chapter is a perfect model for writers who want to learn how to ...more |
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Good Info, But Needs Editing As these are entries taken straight from the author’s blog there is a lot of repetition as she defines flash fiction and other concepts multiple times. Nonetheless, the information is valuable and comprehensive. |
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An Intriguing Urban Fantasy Fairy Tale … crossed with horrific elements. Over two decades ago the town of Tannersburg was subject to horrific murders and once again death stalks the deep forests about the town. Part fairy tale, part horror story, part ...more |
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Intense, Claustrophobic Underground Creature Horror Eight men and two women head into a mine for a state inspection and encounter a creature that thrives and hunts in the dark. The characters are fully developed with distinct drives, backstories, and ...more |
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Another Short Story to Hive You the Creeps This is the third short story I have read from Victoria Williamson, and in Shrink Wrap, I saw the ending coming from a mile away. Nonetheless, the final scene still grossed me out. There is something really wro ...more |
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Pure AI Slop Pages and pages of one sentence paragraphs, stilted, illogical conversations, repetition of phrases galore. If you had a drinking contest where you read “The honesty nearly destroyed her” or the word, “Interesting” as a complete sentence, ...more |
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An Excellent Historical Gothic Romance The heroine is not a helpless waif, but a young woman of wit and wisdom dealing with conniving enemies and men too passive to be of any help. Slowly she builds a cadre of allies to help her. This reviewer does not ...more |
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A Fun Read Imagine Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, or the best of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but with Russian intrigue and lots of sex. Fortunately, the latter is only referenced and not blow-by-blow porn, so the work is still readable as a satisfying ...more |
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Predictable, But Entertaining Amy is a seven-year-old with a long-suffering mother and a father who defines peevish, prudish selfishness. Evidently, he’s spent the last 15 years writing a book on ancient Egypt ignoring all family duties. This is reso ...more |
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A Very Good Dark Fantasy Romance If you like your stories resolved with every I dotted and every T crossed, you will be disappointed. But if you like your stories dripping with mystery and solidly mixed with enchantment and wonder, then here you go. A ...more |
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“Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea