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Jackson Kuhl

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History, Historical Fiction, Horror

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Robert Aickman, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe ...more

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JACKSON KUHL is the author of the Gothic mysteries The Island of Small Misfortunes and A Season of Whispers , as well as the Revolutionary War biography Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer. He has worked as a journalist, ghostwriter, and freelance writer and editor. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Kuhl lives in coastal Connecticut. ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 425 ratings · 132 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author), David Tallerman (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ramsey Campbell (Contributor), Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Horror Library, Volume 6 by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeffrey Ford (Goodreads Author), Bentley Little (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Altered America by Martin T. Ingham, Jackson Kuhl (Goodreads Author), Dan Gainor (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Season of Whispers 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings — 7 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 Island of Small Misfortunes 3.48 avg rating — 31 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
	Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 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 Dead Ride Fast 4.67 avg rating — 3 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
	Innovations That Changed Building Design 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
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Happy Publication Day to The Island of Small Misfortunes. This book was a journey for sure. I wrote the bulk of it pre-pandemic, then finished it in the early months of 2020. The manuscript was a total mess until the very end, when suddenly everything fell into place like a game of Tetris.

I’ve discovered with time that every book I write is a reply to the previous one. A Season of Whispers, fo Read more of this blog post »

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“I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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