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Richard Gavin

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Canada

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http://www.richardgavin.net

Genre

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A resident of Ontario, Canada, Richard Gavin is the author of many acclaimed works of horror and the occult, including Charnel Wine, Omens, and Primeval Wood. His non-fiction appears frequently in the pages of Rue Morgue magazine and other journals. Richard’s latest collection, The Darkly Splendid Realm, will be released by Dark Regions Press in autumn 2009.

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It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide..." -- H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Festival'

Image: 'Sunset in a Winter Forest' by Julius von Klever, 1889

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Average rating: 3.91 · 4,652 ratings · 761 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	At Fear's Altar 4.04 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Grotesquerie 3.88 avg rating — 204 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
	Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness 4.06 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2016 — 4 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 Darkly Splendid Realm 4.25 avg rating — 80 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
	Omens 4.29 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007	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 Benighted Path: Primeval Gnosis and the Monstrous Soul 4.42 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2015	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 Moribund Portal: Spectral Resonance and the Numen of the Gallows 4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Charnel Wine 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	Fume by Richard Gavin, Michael Bukowski (Cover art) 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Penumbrae: An Occult Fiction Anthology by Richard Gavin (Editor), Patricia Cram (Editor), Daniel A. Schulke (Editor) 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 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

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“THINGS ARE WHAT THEY ARE, BUT NOTHING IS REAL UNTIL KING HIM UTTERS ITS NAME. WE KNOW A CHAIR IS A CHAIR BECAUSE EVERYTIME WE SEE ONE, KING HIM SAYS THE WORD “CHAIR” IN OUR EAR. OUR PHYSICS ARE HIS FAIRY-TALES. [SEE MATHEMATICS OF MAKE-BELIEVE.] WHAT MOST CALL THOUGHTS ARE REALLY JUST KING HIM TALKING. KING HIM IS ALWAYS TALKING. HIS NEVERENDING LECTURE IS WHAT PEOPLE CALL “KNOWLEDGE.”
― Richard Gavin, At Fear's Altar

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“I was tired of creeping out of my one-bedroom apartment solely to go to the office or to shop for provisions, sick of basing my opinions on television news feeds or lonesome perusals of the Internet. I was simply tired of being alone.”
― Richard Gavin, At Fear's Altar

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“Capricorn taught me that this realm is called Autumnal by its faithful. Autumnal is not a place, but an eternal moment. It is a state of being where one’s innermost nature weds perfectly with some neglected corner of the natural world. Autumnal is smoke and damp air. It is illumed by a slaughtered sun whose rays are filtered through a perennial fog. This is the Greylight; the guttering fallow of the underworld glyphed in the natural world of matter and form.”
― Richard Gavin, At Fear's Altar

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