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	What Good Girls Do (Elizabeth, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 1,861 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	What Good Men Do (Elizabeth, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Chocolateman 4.23 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	The Cold Visitor 3.98 avg rating — 125 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
	Filthy Secrets - A Novelette 3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2021	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
	Your Loved Ones Will Die First by Jonathan Butcher (Goodreads Author), Ryan Harding (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Stuart Bray (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Motel Styx Undressed: A companion book to the Motel Styx series by Jonathan Butcher (Goodreads Author), Michelle von Eschen (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 86 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
	Something Very Wrong: A Collection of Lurid Body Horror 3.94 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	The Chocolateman 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	The Children at the Bottom of the Gardden 4.15 avg rating — 20 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

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NEW RELEASE: The Cold Visitor, July 15th

It's going to be a cold summer...

My newest release, The Cold Visitor, will drop July 15th, 2025, and is my first chilling excursion into cosmic horror. This is NOT my usual approach, and I could not be more excited about its release. For this one (and perhaps any that follow...) I'm looking forward to swapping splatter for terror!

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Quite simply a masterpiece and the very definition of a page-turner - which, at 600-odd pages is no easy task. This is my first five-star review of 2026 (I think?), and I was enraptured by this disturbing ghost story/adventure, which takes place duri ...more
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Fun, bitchy, and gay AF (as the blurb reads), Phrique's drag queen killfest may have comic elements but still packs a punch. Written with wit and vibrancy, Gig of the Damned is an entertaining novel about drag queen Antonio/Gamble Donna Phart preparin ...more
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A phenomenal collection. Grimmer than grim, darker than dark, eloquent, elegant, and very distressing. TWs for many things. WAHTHEO is not without flaws - some stories appear linked but then lead into jarring readalones, and the tone is inconsistent i ...more
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Jonathan Butcher made a comment on K D Davies’s review of Chocolateman " Hi KD! Thanks for the review. Just to clarify though: you listened to the audiobook of the short story, while this is the page for the full-length nov ...more "
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Jonathan Butcher liked K D Davies's review of Chocolateman: "He’s on the bog delighting in a bit of ‘chocolate’. The chocolate man is an utter filth bag! Say his name one, two, three and just like Beetlejuice… Jonathan narrates this one himself and he does a great job! It’s super short and super gross. There so" Read more of this review »
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I expected to adore every page, because Josh Malerman is my favourite contemporary horror author, but I was thwarted a little by the fact I had seen the film a few times. My own fault. However, the climactic chapter leading into the conclusion is som ...more
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