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Tom English

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http://literaryalchemist.blogspot.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Mystery & Thrillers

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Tom English is an environmental chemist who writes strange tales of the supernatural in his spare time. His fiction appears in several anthologies, including Haunted House Short Stories, Detective Thrillers Short Stories, Gaslight Arcanum (an anthology of supernatural Sherlock Holmes stories), and Challenger Unbound, as well as issues of Weirdbook, Black Infinity, and All Hallows (The Journal of the Ghost Story Society). His first story “Lightning Rod” was selected to appear in Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 (Wildside Press, 2009). Tom’s nonfiction books include Diet for Dreamers, Angel in the Kitchen, and The Heart of an Angel, both written with his wife, Wilma. He also edited Bound for Evil, a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for b ...more

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	Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad by Tom English (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.A.C. Amaral, Glynn Owen Barrass 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008	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
	Nightmare Abbey (Nightmare Abbey #1) 4.17 avg rating — 12 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
	Black Infinity: Deadly Planets by Tom English (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Douglas Smith (Contributor), Simon Strantzas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	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
	Black Infinity: Blobs, Globs, Slime and Spores by Tom English (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Cowan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Todd Treichel (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2018	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
	Black Infinity: Body Snatchers! by Tom English (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John W. Campbell, Marc Vun Kannon (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Black Infinity: Renegade Robots 4.50 avg rating — 4 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
	The Grudge: Two Nations, One Match, No Holds Barred 4.25 avg rating — 4 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
	A Botanical Nightmare: Six Succulent Stories of Vampiric Vegetation (The Literary Vampire Series, #1) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	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
	Nightmare Abbey 7 by Tom English (Goodreads Author), Stephen Volk (contributor), Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	Nightmare Abbey 9 by Tom English (Goodreads Author), Simon Bestwick (Goodreads Author), Steve Duffy (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 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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Writer Gregory L. Norris and editor Tom English discuss the impact of daytime soaps on story-telling and the horror genre

Gregory L. Norris, Writer: BLACK INFINITY 3: Some of my earliest memories involve Dan Curtis's dreamy soap opera set in coastal Maine, Dark Shadows . Often as a boy, I would wand...

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Black Infinity (3 books)
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Douglas Smith,

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“red lights illuminating the dark like lipstick in a bad dream about infidelity.”
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“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

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