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Charles Austin Muir

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Fiction, Horror, Horror

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Charles Austin Muir is a writer, visual storyteller, and personal trainer. He is the author of Slippery When Metastasized and the Splatterpunk Award-nominated This Is a Horror Book. He has also contributed to many anthologies and magazines in the horror and weird fiction genres, including Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume One, Peel Back the Skin, and Cinema Viscera. His autobiographical short film, "A History of Worry," won Best Experimental Micro Film at the Fall 2021 Oregon Short Film Festival. He has worked as an obituary writer, humor columnist, and fitness writer. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and dogs. ...more

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When in Rome, shoot random footage and make a movie of it

In between attending the MotoTematica Motorcycle Film Festival, vlogging about my experiences there, and seeing what sights I could with my friend, James (who was also taking photographs for a class he's taking), all in a six-day period including travel time, I accumulated some footage of me randomly walking around Rome. On the plane ride back, I came up with an idea of how to tie it all together,

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	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	18 Wheels of Horror: A Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors (18 Wheels Anthologies) by Eric Miller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ray Garton, Del Howison (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror; Volume One by Anthony Rivera (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Lawson (Editor), Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2013 — 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 New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg by Sam Richard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brendan Vidito (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Peel Back the Skin by Anthony Rivera (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Lawson (Editor), Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Hell Comes to Hollywood, Volume I by Eric Miller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian Domonic Muir, Ann Lewis Hamilton (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	This is a Horror Book 3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Slippery When Metastasized 4.75 avg rating — 20 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
	Body Building Spider Rangers and Other Stories 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Pug Monster Gallery by Charles Austin Muir (Goodreads Author), Kara Muir (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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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“That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we are separated.”
― Emil M. Cioran

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