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Will Ludwigsen

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in The United States

Website

http://www.will-ludwigsen.com

Genre

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

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Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, Robert Aickman ...more

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March 2012

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Will Ludwigsen's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Blood Lite, Interfictions 2, and many other places.

The intersection of these strange and scattered venues seems to be Will's fascination with weird mystery: signs of a dark and sublime imagination behind the universe. If he doesn't see those signs, he's more than happy to add them himself. ...more

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Did You Know People Actually Asked Me to Speak at a Graduation?

I happened to notice that today is the fifteenth anniversary of my graduation with an MFA in Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. I wrote the first version of A Scout is Brave for my thesis–which an agent would later ask incredulously if I passed–and met a lot of wonderful people with whom I suck at keeping in touch.

I was lucky enough to be asked by my fellow gradua

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	Blood Lite by Kevin J. Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sherrilyn Kenyon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nancy Kilpatrick (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 8,381 ratings — published 2008 — 13 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
	Blood Lite III: Aftertaste (Blood Lite, #3) by Kevin J. Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), J.G. Faherty (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 1,953 ratings — published 2012 — 8 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
	Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny by Steve Berman (Editor), Holly Black (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 166 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
	A Scout Is Brave 4.26 avg rating — 90 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
	In Search Of and Others 4.19 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 8 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
	Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing by Delia Sherman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christopher Barzak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Henry Jenkins (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Acres of Perhaps 4.23 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby!: And Other Cosmic Insolence 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Remembrance is Something Like a House 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
	Night Fever 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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Will Ludwigsen rated a book it was amazing If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore	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 whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little. We blur and blend to the murky shades left behind when something vivid dies.”
― Will Ludwigsen, In Search Of and Others

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