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Despite forays into the mundane worlds of law and IT, Dave Higgins has been unable to escape the liminal zone between fantasy and horror.

Born in the least mystically significant part of Wiltshire, England, and raised by a librarian, he started reading shortly after birth and hasn’t stopped since. He lives with his wife Nicki, Una cat, a plush altar to Cthulhu, and many shelves of books.

It’s rumoured he writes out of fear he will otherwise run out of books to read.

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	Origin (Dragons & Magic #1) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Greenstar Season 1, Episodes 1-3 by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 3.27 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Adventure (Dragons & Magic #2) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Fauxpocalypse by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Matt Blashill (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Alexandrina Brant (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Sorcery (Dragons & Magic #3) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Greenstar Complete Season 1: The Space Opera (A Josie Stein Comedy #1) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 11 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
	Greenstar Season 2 (A Josie Stein Comedy #2) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 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
	Greenstar Season 3 (A Josie Stein Comedy #3) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 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
	Bloody Red Nose: Fifteen Fears of a Clown by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Willow Croft (Goodreads Author), Eleanor Cawood Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Outsiders Within by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joel Donato Ching Jacob, Dave Ring (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 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

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Kindberg fuses Ghanaian mythology with images of the direction social media and AI might go, creating a cyberpunk thriller that is both a tense race against an assassin and an exploration of whether souls are more than information. When rebels opposed to both the West African government and the shared sense-net that oversees most of … Continue reading Vampires of Avonmouth by Tim Kindberg Read more of this blog post »

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Dragons & Magic (3 books)
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A Conjuring of Ravens (A Practical Guide to Sorcery #1)

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Demystifying Awakening: A Buddhist Path of Realization, Embodiment, and Freedom

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation

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