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Michael May

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in Cocoa Beach, FL, The United States

May 29, 1967

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Michael May writes the comic Kill All Monsters (co-created and drawn by Jason Copland) and other cool adventure stories. He's also the host or co-host of numerous podcasts on a variety of pop culture topics. ...more

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Average rating: 3.47 · 53 ratings · 14 reviews · 1 distinct work

Kill All Monsters! 1: Ruins of Paris
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3.47 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions

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Jane and the Stillroom Maid by Stephanie Barron

Although I love the entire Austen Mysteries series so far, some of the individual books can drag. Barron's version of Austen is always a great, funny, observant, courageous detective, so she and her supporting cast and all of the historical details that Barron includes are enough to keep me interested. But some of the books have had stretches in which I was eager to get back to the investigati Read more of this blog post »

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Hellboy Omnibus, Volume 1: Seed of Destruction

by Mike Mignola

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'Salem's Lot

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Nettle & Bone

by T. Kingfisher

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