J. Boote
J. Boote is the alter-ego of Justin Boote, author of horror and dark fiction. J. Boote writes primarily extreme horror, not for the faint-hearted or easily offended.
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Inigo Mort
Inigo Mort lives in England with his darling wife. He is the founder of The Ghosties, an anonymous short-story horror fiction prize, and dreams of opening a horror-only bookshop in London one day.
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Inigo Mort reviews and rambles about horror books on TikTok and Instagram @inigohorror.
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Lesley A. Camphouse
Lesley lives secluded in the Netherlands with her husband and five cats. She enjoys writing Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk, and Dark Romantasy.
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Besides writing, she likes to read, and those exact categories are the ones she devours.
She's also a hoarder of trinkets and cool things and collects a lot of stuff, from oddities and curiosities to manga, comics, and figurines. -
Harrison Phillips
Harrison Phillips is an English author of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. His literary influences range from Clive Barker and Stephen King, to Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee. He was born and raised in Birmingham, England, where he still resides with his long-suffering wife, their two daughters, and a schnauzer named Minnie.
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Jeff Menapace
A native of the Philadelphia area, Jeff has published multiple works in both fiction and non-fiction. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Red Adept Reviews Indie Award for Horror.
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In March of 2014, his novel BAD GAMES was a #1 Kindle bestseller and is now being optioned as a feature film.
Free time for Jeff is spent watching horror movies, The Three Stooges, and mixed martial arts. He loves steak and more steak, thinks the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the greatest movie ever, wants to pet a lion some day, and hates spiders. -
Michael R. Collins
Michael R. Collins was born at a very young age in the wilds of southern Idaho. After a few decades he finally got his fill of all the sagebrush and rattlesnakes he could eat so he struck out into the world. After a long stop in Austin, Texas, he currently lives in Pennsylvania with his partner Mel. He has written three books, scores of short stories, and a few alibis. (Just in case)
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As Mick Collins I also published Dick Wiggler and Other Useless Superpowers. -
Peter Caffrey
Peter Caffrey creates stories stained with the darkest of dark humour, featuring elements of splattery filth, horror, bizarro and absurdity.
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Alongside numerous books, his work has also appeared in a number of anthologies including ABC’s of Terror (Vol 4), Call Me Hoop, Unamerican Trash, In Uterus, Prose in Poor Taste (Vol 2), The Best of Bizarro Fiction (Vol 2) and The Bumper Book of British Bizarro. He has also featured in many publications including Underbelly, Horror Sleaze Trash, Infernal Ink, Terror House, Frontier Tales and Schlock!
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Eli Wilde
Eli Wilde started writing when he was very young and stopped writing while he was still young. He didn’t pick up a pen again until many years later. Now that he is telling stories once more, everything feels as it should.
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Michelle von Eschen
Michelle von Eschen (early works written as Michelle Kilmer) is an American author of quiet, literary horror.
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She is a lover of the macabre who prefers Earl Grey tea, October, people who say goodbye on the phone, and her dreams are so real she can’t figure out what has really happened to her. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys weightlifting, dark beer, web design, singing and playing guitar, camping and hiking, and watching horror movies. She lives in England with her husband, horror author Jonathan Butcher. -
Phrique
Phrique /frēk/ noun.
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1. An exhibition, a strange deviation from nature. Adorable, Evil.
2. An extremely new and extremely YOUNG splatterpunk/horror/bizarro author with stories to tell. They’re kinda scary, kinda graphic, kinda campy, kinda stupid, kinda random. Kinda like him.
3. Phrique is a Pisces who enjoys crying and taking baths. His hobbies include angering the townspeople and outliving his enemies. His favorite color is purple & his favorite state is "your mom." Everything frightens him. Who are you people and who let you in here? Unhand me.
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Andrew Lennon
Andrew Lennon is the bestselling author of Every Twisted Thought and several other horror/thriller books. He has featured in various bestselling anthologies, and is successfully becoming a recognised name in horror and thriller writing.
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His work has appeared alongside horror royalty such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Richard Chizmar, Clive Barker, and many more.
Andrew is a happily married man living in the North West of England with his wife Hazel & their children.
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Candace Nola
I am Candace Nola, and I am a multiple award-winning author, editor, and publisher. I write poetry, horror, dark fantasy, and extreme horror content. My books include Breach, Beyond the Breach, Hank Flynn, Bishop, Earth vs The Lava Spiders, The Unicorn Killer, Unmasked, The Vet, and Desperate Wishes.
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I have short stories in The Baker’s Dozen anthology, Secondhand Creeps, American Cannibal, Just A Girl, The Horror Collection: Lost Edition & The Turquoise Edition, just to name a few.
Beyond the Breach, won the “Novel of the Year” and my Debut Novel, Breach, was nominated for “Debut Novel of the Year”, for the 2021 Horror Authors Guild awards. I am also the publisher and editor of the 2022 Splatterpunk Award Winning Anthology “Uncomfortably Da -
Carver Pike
My name is Carver Pike. Since as far back as I can remember, I've been fascinated by everything horror. I'd sit cross-legged in front of the TV and watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre while devouring a bowl of Kaboom cereal. I always wished the ghost at the end of each episode of Scooby-Doo wouldn't be just another man behind the mask. I wanted real ghastly ghouls, dastardly demons, and malevolent monsters.
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At some point, I knew I couldn't sit back and keep watching this horror world from the stands. I wanted to be in the game. So, now I wield this virtual pen and sling ink onto this page with the hopes of someday being a major player. I want to create those worlds you visit, feed that fear that keeps you up late at night, and entertain you in -
Jessica Johnson
Having joined QMP back in 2022, Her debut The Woman In The Mirror will be relaunched on 14th Feb 2023.
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She is also working on 2 others books, The Girls Of Old Eden School, and The Bean Nighe, which she is hoping to also release very soon under 0en name Breanna Raine. -
Robert Essig
Robert Essig is the author of 30 books such as Baby Fights, Disco Rice, and Master of Bodies, which was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award. He has published over 130 short stories and edited three anthologies. Robert lives with his family in east Tennessee.
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Catriona Mowat
Specialising in historical, gothic horror, Catriona is influenced by classic horror like Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley, as well as modern classics like The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.
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Living in Swindon, UK, Catriona loves museums and exploring the local area, and can often be found wandering through woodlands and exploring the Cotswolds. She sings and enjoys the theatre as well as being a book and movie nerd.
Catriona has previously had poetry published in 8 anthologies and magazines from Forward Press, Aberdeen University Press and The Illustrated Ape art magazine, although she has only been writing prose and publishing full works since Jan 2025. She is one to watch in the indie horror scene -
Matthew A. Clarke
Matthew A. Clarke is a British horror and bizarro author.
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Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird, and entertaining works. We read that stuff (someone has to) and then write publicly to one another here about the experience of reading it. If you join this group, you can too.
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Lesley A. Camphouse
Lesley lives secluded in the Netherlands with her husband and five cats. She enjoys writing Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk, and Dark Romantasy.
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Besides writing, she likes to read, and those exact categories are the ones she devours.
She's also a hoarder of trinkets and cool things and collects a lot of stuff, from oddities and curiosities to manga, comics, and figurines. -
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Harrison Phillips
Harrison Phillips is an English author of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. His literary influences range from Clive Barker and Stephen King, to Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee. He was born and raised in Birmingham, England, where he still resides with his long-suffering wife, their two daughters, and a schnauzer named Minnie.
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Matt Shaw
Biography
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MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flir -
Tory Favro
Tory Adam Favro is an Australian author with a penchant for horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy. Tory weaves tales that transport readers to thrilling and imaginative realms. Residing in Geelong, Australia, he passionately punches words into his keyboard, harboring the vain hope that someone out there enjoys his creations.
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Aron Beauregard
Aron Beauregard was born and raised in Central Falls, Rhode Island. He's been writing horror since the 6th grade and has now released over 25 books. An avid supporter of horror art and illustration, Aron has made it his standard to hire illustrators for every book that he puts out under his brand AB Horror.
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His writing is dark and without boundaries. Known for creating a stir, his work has gone viral on several occasions. He's won the Splatterpunk Award twice after garnering four total nominations. As an independent artist, Beauregard's book "Playground" has achieved #1 Bestseller status under the category of horror on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, his work has been translated to multiple languages.
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Steve Stred
An award-winning author, Steve Stred lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with his wife and son.
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Known for his novels, ‘Mastodon,’ ‘Churn the Soil,’ and his series ‘Father of Lies’ where he joined a cult on the dark web for four years, his work has been described as haunting, bleak and is frequently set in the woods near where he grew up. He’s been fortunate to appear in numerous anthologies with some truly amazing authors.
His novel ‘Mastodon’ will be translated into Czech and Italian over the next few years.
His novel 'Churn the Soil' won the Best Horror Novel award in the 2024 Indieverse Awards.
His novel 'Mastodon' and his novella' Sacrament' were both nominated for Splatterpunk Awards.
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James Oliver
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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Jason R. Davis
Jason R. Davis is an Alumni of Columbia College Chicago who has continued on to be an author, event organizer and filmmaker. He is the founder of The Chicago Horror Film Festival and author of the zombie apocalypse series, "Invisible Spiders." Jason spends much of his time promoting and working to develop independent artists and hosts a weekly podcast, "Shriek Speak." For more information please visit jasonrdavis.net
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Deathly Rose
Luana is a horror fanatic to the core. As a kid, she wasn't allowed to watch anything related to horror due to the strict religious beliefs instilled by her parents. Regardless, Luana’s passion for horror grew while watching scary movies in secret. Within the genre, she has found healing for her past traumas, and she writes stories to hopefully help others dealing with all the difficulties life throws at them.
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When she’s not reading or writing, Luana plays video games. She's an animal lover and will always see her fur babies as her own children. -
Jamie Kort
Jamie Kort writes knitting based horror and other weird adventure tales.
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Aiden E. Messer
Aiden E. Messer does not exist. Are they an illusion, a ghost, a mere thought? No one knows. If we are to believe one of the children they seem to work with, if they were a teacher, they would be as tall as a human. They are not a teacher. According to various sources, they have studied psychology, and have always had a penchant for horror and the macabre. They like to combine these subjects in their books.
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James Yates
James Yates is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. He writes horror fiction that blends the brutal, the supernatural, and the psychological. Focusing on working-class British settings and character-driven stories, his debut novel The Cleanse explores the monstrous in both man and myth. A lifelong devotee of horror in all its forms – from slasher to folk to the quietly unhinged – he draws from a background that understands just how grey the edges of humanity can be.
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Reekfeel
A writer of strange abnormal fiction, like Bizarro in Absurdism and Comedy and Surreal Horror. A weird different style that’s totally unique going into mind-bending dimensions and experimental narratives. With a richness of originality, avoiding writing about things already written about. Distinctive feature - the trickster narrator. On Amazon and Godless dot com.
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Matthew Cash
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Matthew Cash, or Matty-Bob Cash as he is known to most, was born and raised in Suffolk; which is the setting for his debut novel Pinprick. He is compiler and editor of Death By Chocolate, a chocoholic horror Anthology and the 12Days: STOCKING FILLERS Anthology. In 2016 he launched his own publishing house Burdizzo Books and took shit-hot editor and author Em Dehaney on board to keep him in shape and together they brought into existence SPARKS: an electrical horror anthology, The Reverend Burdizzo’s Hymn Book, Under The Weather* Visions From the Void ** and The Burdizzo Mix Tape Vol. 1.
He has numerous solo releases on Kindle and several collections in paperback.
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Matt Duchossoy
For those that don't know, Duchossoy is a pen name. I've switched back to writing under my real name, Matthew A. Clarke, as of late 2023. Be sure to follow me over there so you don't miss out on future releases, and stay spooky!
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T.L. MacRae
T. L. MacRae is a fairy warrior princess from Fife, Scotland. Told too often that her head was in the clouds, she lost touch with reality somewhere around tea parties and chasing unicorns. She created realms of her own and lives there instead.
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She writes horror, romance and poetry. Using her writing she wants to raise awareness around domestic abuse and mental health. She believes that writing gives her a voice otherwise silenced by those who benefited from that quiet.
If you would like to connect or receive updates on projects, please follow @tlmacraeauthor on Instagram and TikTok. -
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Chris Miller
Chris Miller is a native Texan who has been writing from an early age. He began publishing in 2017 with his first novel, A Murder of Saints, and since then he has published several novels—including the Amazon bestselling Splatter Western, Dust—and has also been inducted into many anthologies. When not writing, Chris enjoys playing guitar, watching movies, and reading. He is first and foremost a family man and is happily married to the love of his life (and best friend) Aliana. They have three beautiful children and live in Winnsboro, TX.
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Zoé-Lee O'Farrell
Zoé O’Farrell grew up in Watford but left the town life to live by the sea down at the White Cliffs of Dover.
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She spends her days working with numbers before escaping to the world of words and movies in the evening. Her go-to relaxation is watching a scary movie or reading a terrifying book!
She is a book blogger and tour organiser to keep her extra busy. When she is not reading or writing, you can usually find her watching Watford FC or at a gig. Failing that she can be found rolling her eyes at her husband as he acts the same age as her spitfire of a Mini-Me whilst separating her five cats. -
A.E. Soto
If you want to know more about me, all I will disclose (for now) is that I am a 27 year old female author who lives in North Carolina. I’m married to a beautiful woman and we own a bizarre amount of animals, currently the number is sixteen, but please don’t let that scare you away! We have a farm, so it’s at least somewhat justified. My passion for extreme horror developed from my curiosities in my adolescence, I would often look up the most extreme horror films I could find with my friends and watch as many as we could stomach. Looking back on it, I think viewing those movies set a standard for me that most contemporary horror could rarely achieve. It wasn’t until I found extreme horror literature as an adult that my needs for the extreme
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Nicholas Gordon
Nicholas Gordon is a horror author who has been trapped in the Nightmare Realm since 1954. Known for his outlandish concepts, he often visits the dreams of others to find inspiration for his stories. When he’s not writing, he enjoys listening to opera and motivational speakers. He has somehow acquired a cellphone, and you can find updates on his latest projects on Instagram @nicholasgordonwrites
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Z. Martin
Z martin. Where do you even begin to explain the entity that is this author. He has been known to haunt random bookstores, occasionally purchasing the odd book or two. Some say he writes horror stories while others say he reviews books he has read. Legends say if you speak his name thrice in a mirror he will appear (please do not attempt this he has been known to startle easy).
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D.Z. Hollow
D.Z. Hollow is an author and musician with cerebral palsy. He lives in the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia with his wife and a slew of rescue animals. D.Z. aims to paint disabled people in a true light. All his life he was called, gimp, and crippled. He intends to use his work as a chance to give disabled characters a voice. When not writing, he enjoys watching horror movies and television shows. He also loves playing music and hiking with his wife and fellow author, Juliet.
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Sierra Waff
Sierra Waff is a Pacific Northwest-based writer whose debut novel is a blood-soaked ride with real-life trauma, filtered through her obsession with extreme horror in both fiction and film.
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When she’s not writing, she’s practicing traditional witchcraft, unraveling folklore, and losing herself in deep dives on cryptids, aliens, and ancient ruins. And obviously, she lives for Halloween!
Favorite movies include: Martyrs(2008), Coven(2020), The Lure(2015) and Nosferatu(2024).
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Mark Woods
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads data base.
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Daniel Lorn
Daniel has been obsessed with horror since childhood and is particularly interested in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles L Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, and M.R. James.
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With his spine-chilling debut, Obsession, in 2022, Daniel marked his entry into the world of horror literature. The resounding acclaim for his unique brand of horror quickly fuelled his creative drive, leading to the release of PACT, See You Later, RED, and Sins of the Wronged.
Daniel has been commended on his ability to transform the ordinary into the monstrous. While he has primarily delved into psychological horror with Obsession, PACT, and RED, his true passion lies in the world of supernatural horror, as seen in See You Later. This genre will be the key focus of his future w -
Shaun A.I.C. Wilson
Shaun A.I.C. Wilson is a horror writer born and raised in Milton Keynes, UK, on June 19th, 1991. He has a passion for crafting spine-chilling tales that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Shaun's love for horror started at a young age, where he would read The Saga of Darren Shan late into the night.
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In addition to writing, Shaun enjoys spending time with his Fiancé and 3 boy's. His inspiration comes from his surroundings as well as his vivid imagination. He is also an avid gamer and movie buff. -
Candice Jarrett
Candice Jarrett is an award-winning songwriter who performed on stages and television shows around the world. But that was only the beginning. As the depth of her experiences grew, Candice’s writing expanded to not only include songs but novels as well.
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In 2017, Candice and her husband moved into an RV full-time. In their house-on-wheels, they sought out adventure by traveling the U.S. coast to coast. During this period, Candice focused all her creative energy on writing a book. Her first novel was penned by campfires in the middle of the desert, in folding chairs overlooking ocean cliffs, under the streetlights of parking lots, in roaring truck stops, and all the highways in between. Candice has now written two novels. Her debut novel “Mor -
Mark A. Daniel
Mark A. Daniel is a writer of the horror / thriller / suspense genre including the recent release "Crossroads".
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Taking the advice of his third-grade teacher to “pursue writing of some kind as a career,” he promptly wrote his first book From Six Feet to Two Inches. It was about 10 pages long. He never looked back.
He has since completed eight novels and two short story collections. Black Mass, Resurrection, The Gifted, Burial Grounds and The Threshold are available today, as are the short stories in Razor’s Edge 1 and Razor’s Edge 2.
Mark lives and writes on a small ranch in rural West Texas, accompanied by his wife of 30 years, a few dogs, several cats, and a varying number of chickens. -
J. Smith
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Chisto Healy
Chisto started writing as a child and it was always his biggest passion, though he is also a musician and artist. When he was forced to quarantine in March 2020 due to the pandemic, he decided to focus on his writing and write full-time and has since had 100 stories accepted to be published, many of which are already out there. He hopes this is only the beginning...
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Mark M.J. Green
Bald, bearded and bumbling, Mark likes the spooky side of life and things that go bump in the night. Although that's usually him wandering into something as he didn't bother to turn a light on.
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Mark writes horror stories in a variety of styles within the genre and enjoys spending time with his family - including his day who may, or may not, be demonic.
He's also a bit of a nerd and when he hasn't got his face buried in a book can be found playing video games and board games.
Take one, Mr Potatohead. Attach his angry eyes - preferably placing one of them at a slightly different angle to the other. Affix a beard and leave the head barren of growth.
Congratulations. You now have your very own Mark M.J. Green.
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