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Richard Gavin


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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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New German-Language Publications


Wandler-Verlag, my German-language publisher, is now offering two new publications: 

Uraltes Holz und andere Geshichten (Primeval Wood and Other Stories) is once again back in stock in a new second edition. Heartfelt thanks to all my German readers who made the first edition of this collection so successful. The second edition includes an exclusive new interview with me in German. Copies of thi

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Published on February 18, 2026 11:05
Average rating: 3.91 · 4,659 ratings · 760 reviews · 85 distinct worksSimilar authors
At Fear's Altar

4.04 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Grotesquerie

3.88 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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Sylvan Dread: Tales of Past...

4.08 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions
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The Darkly Splendid Realm

4.25 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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Omens

4.29 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007
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The Benighted Path: Primeva...

4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2015
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The Moribund Portal: Spectr...

4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Charnel Wine

4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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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

“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

“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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