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David Peak is the author of The World Below (Apocalypse Party), Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories (Trepidatio Publishing), Corpsepaint (Word Horde), and The Spectacle of the Void (Schism). He lives in Chicago, where he is working on his next novel.

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Corpsepaint

3.91 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions
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The World Below

3.95 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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The Spectacle of the Void

3.93 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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The River Through the Trees

3.80 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Eyes in the Dust

4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Eyes in the Dust and Other ...

4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings2 editions
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Glowing in the Dark

4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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The Destruction Loops

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Museum of Fucked

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
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Surface Tension

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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"A distinctly American absurdism, like automatic-writing that appears behind the eyelids while waiting for an unknown fish to strike a line with a marshmallow hooked at the end, somewhere up river from nowhere, perched on a junked car with a bottle of" Read more of this review »
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“There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.”
Brian Evenson, Fugue State

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“Memories die as soon as they are plucked from their surroundings, they burst, lose color, lose suppleness, stiffen like corpses. All that remains are shells with translucent edges. Half-erased brain platelets are a slippery terrain, deceptive. One’s mental archive is locked, it languishes in the dark. The past is riddled with holes, souvenirs can’t help here. Everything must be thrown away. Everything. And perhaps everyone as well.”
Daša Drndić, Belladonna

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