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Rachel M. Martens

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Rachel M. Martens is the writer of the "Poe" gothic thriller series, as well as the short horror collection "Midnight Hour"(2017), the YA paranormal romantic thriller "Metalhead"(2019), and the political thriller "Patriots' Dance"(2024). Martens resides in Wisconsin and travels extensively, taking inspiration from the locales she has visited and the books she has read along the way. Her favorite time to write is in the midnight hours with a storm as background music and a mug of tea close at hand. ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 169 ratings · 44 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Poe: Nevermore (The Poe Series, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2013 — 6 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
	Sherlock Holmes: Stranger Than Truth by Ray Riethmeier (Goodreads Author), David Marcum (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Langley (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Metalhead 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — 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
	Poe: Rest In Peace (The Poe Series Book 2) 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Poe: Death's Mark (The Poe Series Book 3) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 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
	Twisted Love: A Gothic Romance Anthology by Rachel M. Martens (Goodreads Author), Stephen Howard (Goodreads Author), Rosalyn Briar (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Patriots' Dance 4.50 avg rating — 2 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
	Midnight Hour: A Compilation of Short Horror Works 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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
	Poe: Rest In Peace (The Poe Series) 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
	Poe: Haunted Souls 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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Humbug

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Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)

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Being at Silver Scream Con this September was exciting enough, but when I walked into the convention hall and saw the posters advertising that there were special editions of this killer book available at Ice Nine Kills' merch booth I literally beelin ...more
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A haunting collision of grief horror and cosmic horror, a killer combo...and also the kind of man versus monster in the woods story I love to read.
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“My question was not whether the living could go on dead, because I knew they could, but rather whether the person they once were, the shadow of their shattered soul, could ever be resurrected.”
― Rachel M. Martens, Poe: Nevermore

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“Throughout my life, I had always had the ability and the gift to escape into books,”
― Rachel M. Martens, Poe: Nevermore

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“They say that the hearts of the dead are never silent. They say that they
live on, beat on, love on forever. But what of the hearts of the living?”
― Rachel M. Martens, Poe: Nevermore

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