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Michael Harris Cohen

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Michael Harris Cohen’s stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies including F(r)iction, Black Candies, Necessary Fiction, A Punk Rock Future, Catapult’s Tiny Crimes, The Dark, and Conjunctions. His first book, The Eyes, won Mixer’s “Sex, Violence, and Satire” contest judged by Stephen Graham Jones. He’s received a Fulbright grant for literary translation and fellowships from The Djerassi Foundation, OMI International Arts Center, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Jentel Artists Residency, Blue Mountain Center, and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation. He’s a graduate of the MFA program at Brown University where he won the Weston Award for best graduate fiction manuscript. His collection of horror fiction, Effects Va ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 648 ratings · 217 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shallow Waters, Vol. 1 by Joe Mynhardt (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author), Tracy Fahey (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2019	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
	UnCommon Bodies: A Collection of Oddities, Survivors, and Other Impossibilities by Jessica West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Harris Cohen (Goodreads Author), Sessha Batto (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Campfire Macabre by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan (Editor), Kealan Patrick Burke (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Shallow Waters Vol. 2 by Joe Mynhardt (Editor), Michael O'Brien, Mat Shaw 4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2019	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
	Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore by Michael Harris Cohen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Angela Buck (Contributor), Simon P. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 50 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
	A Punk Rock Future by Steve Zisson (Editor), Erica L. Satifka (Goodreads Author), Sarah Pinsker (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Effects Vary 4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Horror Library, Volume 7 by Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Allen Koszowski (Illustrator), Terry Dowling (Contributor) 4.66 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	The Eyes: A Novella & Stories 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The Life and Death of John Doe 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Michael Cohen voted for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter as Readers' Favorite Horror in the Final Round of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards. Cast Your Vote
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Michael Cohen liked Alexander's review of Effects Vary: "Very entertaining collection with some real gems. By turns dark, surreal, melancholic, these stories pretty much hit all my sweet spots. I feel the longer stories were the better ones. Cohen does some real magic when he has enough space. The plot of " Read more of this review »
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Michael Cohen liked Nora's review of Effects Vary: "Cannot recommend the short story “Book of Skies” from this collection enough! A great collection of unsettling and often skin-crawling-to-degloving horror. “Book of Skies” specifically tugs a thread of cosmic horror and midwestern agoraphobia with a " Read more of this review »
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“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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