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Tim Paggi is a horror writer, poet, playwright and performer from Baltimore, MD. He is the author of "How to Kill Friends and Eviscerate People" and the forthcoming "The Other Side of the Hallway." He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Publication Arts from the University of Baltimore, and serves as associate editor for Bruiser Mag. ...more

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	How to Kill Friends and Eviscerate People 4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Work Ethic 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	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
	Workforced it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	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 Other Side of the Hallway: A Corporate Horror Novelette 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2025	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 Un Saddest Factory presents Ten Minute Play Festival: August 2011 (Volume 2) by Un Saddest Factory, Jenn Strunge (Cover Design), Megan McShea (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	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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The Book of the Short Sun

by Gene Wolfe

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Tim Paggi and 5 other people liked Parker Mullins's review of The Book of the Short Sun: " There must be a word for the time when we see something we have seen before turn out to be something else. Sublime, subliminal, monumental Though these three books are remote, beginning 9 volumes deep in the Solar Cycle, they are exquisite. They wo" Read more of this review »
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Tim Paggi rated a book it was amazing Rumbullion by Molly Tanzer (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
OK, Rumbullion: this is the first book I’ve read by Molly Tanzer. It’s composed mostly of a Victorian guy named Julian’s diary and the letters he wrote and received from a host of oddball characters who were in attendance at a party one night. At thi ...more
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Two outstanding novelettes of late-period Ligottian paranoia. I’ve become quite partial to his post-millennium output, particularly “My Work…” and “Teatro Grottesco”(sorry not Googling to see if I spelled that right). In the first piece, “Metaphysica ...more
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I can’t take credit for this one. It was all my co-writer.
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“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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