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Hydra M. Star

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in Greenville, NC, The United States

September 09

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Horror, Erotica, Humor

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H.P. Lovecraft, Oscar Wilde, Anton Szandor LaVey, Clive Barker, Dougla ...more

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Hydra M. Star began zir existence as one half of a set of twin fetuses. Ze ate zir twin in utero. Almost from zir birth—as an only child—ze had an intense interest in all things mysterious and magical. As ze aged, zir taste matured and darkened from the Disney-esque styled fairy stories of childhood to the Erotic Horror and Dark Fantasy ze writes and publishes today. Zir work is often inspired by legend and folklore, with violent werewolf sex being one of zir favorite things. Consider your triggers warned.

In addition to writing, Hydra was also the publisher of Infernal Ink Magazine and the owner of Infernal Ink Books, both of which ze used as platforms to bring the most twisted and sexually depraved horror and dark fiction ze could find to ...more

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	Candy, Blood, and Sex (The Scarlett Little Ryder, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	No One Makes It Out Alive: An End of the World Anthology by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garth Van Buchholz, Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 3 issue 1 for January 2014) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Saranna DeWylde (Goodreads Author) (Interview Subject) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 2 issue 3 for October 2013) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Corvis Nocturnum (Interview Subject) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Belialian Woman: The Complete Collection by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 3 issue 2 for April 2014) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Tibbie X (Interview Subject) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 1 issue 1 for April 2012) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc (Columnist) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 2 issue 2 for July 2013) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc (Columnist) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 2 issue 1 for April 2013) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc (Columnist) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 4 issue 1 for January 2015) by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Michael Pendragon 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 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

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The First Witch of Boston

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Imajica

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Hydra Star said: " Though one of my all time favorite books, when I set out a little over a month ago to re-read Clive Barker‘s Imajica, for the eight or ninth time in the fifteen years I’ve owned my now slightly battered hardcover edition, I didn’t know if I’d include ...more "

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Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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“When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

tags: horror, vampire

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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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