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Coy Hall lives in West Virginia, where he splits time as a professor of history and author. His books include Grimoire of the Four Impostors (2021), The Hangman Feeds the Jackal: A Gothic Western (2022), The Promise of Plague Wolves (2023), and A Séance for Wicked King Death (2023).

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The Hangman Feeds The Jacka...

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Grimoire of the Four Impostors

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The Promise of Plague Wolves

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A Séance for Wicked King Death

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This World of Vile Wonder by Coy Hall
"It is appropriate that the two stories that bookend “This World of Vile Wonder” are tales of seafaring. Discovery beyond the well-known maps, to places that used to be represented with drawings of monsters. All the stories in the collection happen at" Read more of this review »
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One of my favorite reads of the Halloween season this year. Atmospheric collection of forest horror.
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“Like an empty-headed fish, your average human was ignorant of the fact they were hunted by higher beings.” A great line that reveals the philosophy of horror at the heart of this novel.

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"This is the first anthology I have ever read where I can honestly say that every single story is a winner. You know what it's like, it's almost impossible to read an anthology without having favourites, but I could not rank the stories in here no mat" Read more of this review »
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“The stench of decayed flesh mixed with the charred village, and he wondered if he smelled the villagers or the festering wound above his ear. That was the world in which he lived - a world in which that quandary could occur to a man.”
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“Hyacinth understood the power of pageantry and the allure of secrecy. Each of these things alone bent wills, but the mixture of both intoxicated. She'd learned this truth from either the Church or the French.”
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