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Jack D. Ace

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Hey there, fellow travelers of the dark… I’m Jack. Jack D. Ace.
Welcome to the stretch of road I’ve been driving down for years — the one that never quite ends, even when the headlights flicker and the radio goes static.I live in New York, the kind of city that never sleeps and sometimes never lets you forget the things that hide in plain sight. By day I’m elbow-deep in code and servers in a glass tower in Manhattan, fixing what’s broken and writing lines that keep everything running. By night… well, that’s when the real work begins.I’ve spent decades chasing the kind of stories that make your skin crawl because they feel possible. Real terrors — Ed Gein’s quiet house, objects that carry bad luck like a stain you can’t scrub off, the kind of ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 86 ratings · 58 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ghoul Car: The Road Never Ends 3.88 avg rating — 26 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
	The Bitch of Buchenwald 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2026	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
	Embalmed Shadows 3.50 avg rating — 12 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
	Kali's Embrace: Twelve Hearts to Feed the Goddess 3.30 avg rating — 10 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
	Plague House: The Nazi Formula's Curse 3.88 avg rating — 8 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
	Ghoul Car II: The Midnight Run 4.14 avg rating — 7 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
	Veiled Vows: The Blackmail Bargain: Elena Voss 1 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	Death By The Salesman: A Tale Of True Crime 3.75 avg rating — 4 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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Pheretima: Princess of the Dawn

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Dear readers, lovers of darkness,I just hit “Submit” on Pheretima: Princess of the Dawn at Amazon Kindle.And I couldn’t be prouder.After months of intense writing, I’ve finally brought to life one of the most savage, forgotten figures in history — a woman Herodotus himself only dared mention in passing. In this book, I reveal her as the first true female precursor to Dracula Read more of this blog post »

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“In the quiet between heartbeats, the shadows remember what the light has forgotten. They do not forgive. They wait.”
― Jack D. Ace, Embalmed Shadows

tags: extreme-horror

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“Flesh melts faster than lies dissolve. In the end, only the plague tells the truth.”
― Jack D. Ace, Plague House: The Nazi Formula's Curse

tags: extreme-horror

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“Evil never sleeps. It only waits for the next curious hand, the next careless step, the next drop that should never have touched a tongue.”
― Jack D. Ace, Plague House: The Nazi Formula's Curse

tags: extreme-horror

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Jack’s Quotes

“You can come inside me. You can scream my name. But you will never own me. You will only own your own death.”
― Jack D. Ace, Kali's Embrace: Twelve Hearts to Feed the Goddess

tags: extreme-horror, kali

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“Flesh melts faster than lies dissolve. In the end, only the plague tells the truth.”
― Jack D. Ace, Plague House: The Nazi Formula's Curse

tags: extreme-horror

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“Her tongue traces the vein like a promise of ruin—slow, wet, inevitable. When she bites, it's not to taste blood. It's to remind him ecstasy and extinction wear the same skin.”
― Jack D. Ace, Kali's Embrace: Twelve Hearts to Feed the Goddess

tags: extreme-horror

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“The collection is never complete. The hunger never sleeps. The road keeps calling—and someone always answers.”
― Jack D. Ace, Ghoul Car II: The Midnight Run

tags: extreme-horror, ghoul-car-i

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“The Reich wanted monsters. I gave them one.”
― Jack D. Ace, The Bitch of Buchenwald

tags: extreme-horror, ww2-exploitation

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