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Emily Ruth Verona is the author of the novel Midnight on Beacon Street, published by Harper Perennial in January 2024. Her ghostly novella, Shiva, is due out from Dark Matter Ink in 2026. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Cinema Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase. In 2014 she won the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, a Rhysling Award Finalist, a Jane Austen Short Story Award Finalist, and a Luke Bitmead Bursary Finalist. Previous publication credits include fiction and poetry featured in several anthologies as well as magazines such as The Pinch, Lamplight Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Black Telephone Magazine, The Ghastling, and Nightmare Magazine. She lives in ...more

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	Midnight on Beacon Street 2.85 avg rating — 4,804 ratings — published 2024 — 7 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
	Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror by Jacob Steven Mohr (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.T. Madden, Patrick Barb (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	The Ghastling: Book Thirteen by Rebecca Parfitt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Wallace McBride (Goodreads Author) (Design), William Burton McCormick (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 41 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
	Blackberry Blood by Aiden Merchant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julia C. Lewis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sadie Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.43 avg rating — 23 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
	Dark Matter Presents: Monster Lairs by Anna Madden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Fatima Abdullahi, J.W. Allen 3.82 avg rating — 17 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
	Along Harrowed Trails by Keith Anthony Baird (Goodreads Author), Richard Beauchamp, Hank Belbin (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 15 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
	This Way Lies Madness by Lee Murray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Jeffery (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alan Baxter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.80 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
	Steady Is The Fall 4.89 avg rating — 9 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
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women

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“Life is going to happen whether you’re scared or not. So you might as well live it.”
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“I clutched the handle of the door. Squeezed it. Settled my other hand along the doorway and prayed. Not for anything in particular. Just for the sake of doing it. To see if it would change things. To see if it would change me.”
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“The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.”
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“I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.”
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“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
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