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Preston Fassel

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Born

in Houston, TX, The United States

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Horror, Thriller, Fiction

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Stephen King E.L. Doctorow Virginia Woolf Jane Austen Flannery O' ...more

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Preston Fassel is an award-winning novelist and journalist whose work has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Screem Magazine. He is a two-time winner of the Independent Publisher's Gold Medal for Horror, for Our Lady of the Inferno (which was also named one of the ten best books of 2018 by Bloody Disgusting) and The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov. His debut nonfiction book, Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street, the first published biography of film critic and magazine founder Bill Landis, was nominated for the 2022 Rondo Hatton Award for Book of the Year. He graduated Cum Laude from Sam Houston State University in 2011 with a BS in psychology. He held the Tetris world record for like five months in 2009. ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 469 ratings · 131 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Our Lady of the Inferno 4.30 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2016 — 9 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
	Beasts of 42nd Street 3.96 avg rating — 134 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
	Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street 4.14 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Necessary Death: What Horror Movies Teach Us About Navigating the Human Experience by Preston Fassel (Goodreads Author), Chris Grosso (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings — 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
	The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov 4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2021 — 5 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
	My Favorite Horror Movie 3: Scream Warriors by Christian Ackerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felissa Rose (Editor), Chuck Foster (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 11 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
	The Dying and the Dead liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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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“To the untrained eye, he looks to be another one of these kids playing dress up with their parents nightmares.”
― Preston Fassel, Beasts of 42nd Street

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“Quentin was prostate, relaxed, every muscle in his body limp;”
― Preston Fassel, The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov

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