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Christopher Ransom


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Christopher Ransom was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but he doesn't eat hamburgers made of vegetables or drive an SUV with a Save the Planet bumper sticker.

After studying literature at Colorado State University, he won citations for outstanding customer service at the world famous McGuckin Hardware, and later managed Bushmaster Reptiles, an international wholesale importer of exotic species. There he learned to handle, feed, and medicate pythons, boas, vipers, cobras, monitor lizards, and hundreds of other fauna native to Indonesia, Africa, China, and the Americas.

At the age of 25, Chris and his soon-to-be wife Pia moved to New York City for two years, where he worked as an ad sales assistant at Entertainment Weekly, and later as a sales executive for Screaming Media. Approximately six months prior to the firm going public, he made the brilliant financial decision to move to Los Angeles to pursue a screenwriting career. There he sold not a single screenplay, but continued to ride the dot-com wave, managed a Barnes & Noble store, freelanced as a copywriter, and ate a lot of tacos at Baja Fresh.
 

Genres: Horror
 
Novels
   The Birthing House (2008)
   The Haunting of James Hastings (2010)
     aka Killing Ghost
   The People Next Door (2011)
   The Fading (2012)
   The Orphan (2013)
   Beneath the Lake (2015)
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Beneath Cruel Waters (2022)
Jon Bassoff
"Jon Bassoff only gets stranger, and better, with each novel. I don't know what to do with his hypnotic, earthly, yet always surprising voice. I only know there isn't anything else like it out there. Part mystery, part heartland crime, part horror... Let's call it nouveau-noir Americana. If you've got the stomach for riding the original underbelly of modern fiction and want it high octane, Bassoff's latest will scratch the itch like only the finest of 100-proof bottles can do."
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The Good and the Ghastly (2011)
James Boice
"James Boice's sentences crack like hot electric bullwhips across the backs of America’s demons. By head-spinning turns arresting, violent, outraged, pointilistically detailed, tender and gut-busting hilarious, The Good and the Ghastly dances across a dystopian future in a mash-up of genre hooliganism and the inventive glee of literary madness. A page-turning adventure like none you’ve ever taken."

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