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C. P. Bearden is a musician, poet, and author of horror and dark speculative fiction. He lives in a small town in Georgia where he roams the woods and back roads, searching for new scary things to write about.

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The Soil is Calling

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C.P. Bearden entered a giveaway Black Water Bones by S.E. Reed (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
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C.P. Bearden rated a book it was amazing We, the Missing by Arwyn Sherman (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
Delightfully dark with loads of tension and an FMC that reminded me what it was like to be in the thick of teenage angst. A superb debut
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C.P. Bearden rated a book it was amazing The Ballad of a Muscogee Trapper by Abigail F. Taylor	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 and gritty and full of western vibes, almost reminiscent of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. I haven’t read a lot of western horror but this book makes me want to dive into the genre
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C.P. Bearden rated a book really liked it The Skin Room by Carl Bluesy (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
Pretty much everything that can go wrong in Kenneth’s life does go wrong and I loved it. Kinda helps that he’s a douche. This book is gruesome and depraved in all the right ways. It starts slow but has killer payoff in the third act. Def recommend fo ...more
Apr 29, 2026 01:36AM · 1 like · like · see review
C.P. Bearden rated a book it was amazing No One Was Ever Really in This Place: A Horror Novel by Mike Salt (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
4.5 stars rounds up to five. This book felt like an episode of the Twilight Zone and I loved every minute of it. It deals with grave themes like grief, loneliness, the general sense of nihilism that plagues so many people. There were a couple draggin ...more
Mar 18, 2026 03:41PM · 1 like · like · see review
C.P. Bearden rated a book really liked it Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez	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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C.P. Bearden rated a book it was amazing Thin Air: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver	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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C.P. Bearden rated a book it was amazing The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne (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
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