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Brian W. Taylor

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in Rochester, New York, The United States

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Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Brian W. Taylor is a former soldier turned genre fiction author with a soft spot for the horror genre, black Labs, and soul patches. He grew up in Rochester, New York watching movies like The Evil Dead with his grandmother before Cancer took her, which naturally led him to seek out horror in literature. It was then that he stumbled upon Dean Koontz and never looked back. While horror is his first love, Sci-Fi/Fantasy is a close second. Authors like Margaret Weis, Tim Lebbon, and Will McIntosh line his shelves. Star Wars or Star Trek? Neither, the Alien franchise is his favorite (books, movies, & comics). Oh, and never ask him to touch an Ouija board, because he won’t. Ever.

He spent six years in the US Air Force as an aircraft fuel systems s ...more

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	SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror by Geoff Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda J. Spedding (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Weston Ochse (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Greig Beck (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), James A. Moore (Contributor), Eric S. Brown (Contributor), Christine Morgan (Contributor), more… 4.04 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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 Carnival by Jolene Haley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristen Jett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jessi Shakarian (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	SNAFU: Wolves at the Door by Geoff Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda J. Spedding (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James A. Moore 4.01 avg rating — 150 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
	Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered. by Joshua Allen Mercier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bo Balder (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), A.J. Bauers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Paying the Ferryman by Margaret L. Colton (Editor), Brian W. Taylor (Goodreads Author), Rick Scabrous 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 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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“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

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“We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.”
― Dean Koontz

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

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“Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.”
― Chuck Hogan Guillermo Del Toro "The Fall"

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