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Bryan Smith

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Horror, Crime

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Bryan Smith is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than forty horror and crime books, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, as well as The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, and many more. Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, "The best zombie novel I've ever read."

68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting.

Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Com ...more

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Kindle sale on Depraved & 3 more

The following of my books are on sale on Kindle for a few days:

Depraved: $1.99
The Freakshow: Rebirth: $1.99
The Killing Kind: 99 cents
The Unseen III: 99 cents

Sale will go at least a few days, may extend toward the end of this month depending on how sales go.

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	Depraved 3.79 avg rating — 2,772 ratings — published 2009 — 12 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 Killing Kind 3.95 avg rating — 1,164 ratings — published 2010 — 16 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 Freakshow 3.65 avg rating — 1,193 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	House Of Blood 3.44 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 2004 — 12 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
	Depraved 2 3.83 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 2014 — 8 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
	Deathbringer 3.63 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Slowly We Rot 3.88 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2015 — 12 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 Unseen 3.62 avg rating — 470 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
	The Late Night Horror Show 3.74 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2013 — 8 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
	Soultaker 3.63 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2009 — 8 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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Bryan Smith wrote a new blog post Kindle sale on Depraved & 3 more The following of my books are on sale on Kindle for a few days: Depraved: $1.99 The Freakshow: Rebirth: $1.99 The Killing Kind: 99 cents The Unseen III: 9 Read more of this blog post »
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Bryan Smith made a comment on Preorder DEPRAVED HALLOWEEN " Doxarex wrote: "Will you have Angela Rysk read the book again? When I listened to her reading the first book i was amazed at how easy it was to get lo ...more "
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“Like Doctor Who’s TARDIS, or like the house in that book Anna had loaned him once, the one where a bunch of young assholes got lost while driving through a mountain range and wound up at the creepy manor home of a monster disguised as a human.”
― Bryan Smith, The Halloween Bride

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