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John Grover is a multi-genre fiction author residing in Massachusetts. John grew up watching creature double feature with his brother on Saturday afternoons. This fueled his love of monsters, ghosts and the supernatural. He never missed an episode. In his spare time, he loves to cook, garden, go to the theater to watch horror movies with his friends, read, talk about food, bake amazing desserts, play with his dogs and draw-badly.

Some of his favorite TV shows and influences are The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Darkside, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, X-Files, Night Gallery, Monsters, Star Trek, and much more. He completed a creative writing course at Boston's Fisher College and is a member of the New England Horror Writers, a chapter of the Horror Writers Association.

Some of his more recent credits include The Primal Roar Series Published by Raven Tale Publishing, The Underground Series- A trilogy of zombie apocalypse books also by Raven Tale Publishing, The Kaiju Overlords Series and The Orum Chronicles- a trilogy of dark fantasy books both self-published and the Lockwood Crytpid Chronicles.

John's short fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Wicked Creatures by The New England Horror Writers, Jersey Pines Crypto-Gnats Anthology, Best New Zombie Tales 1 by Books of the Dead Press, The Vermin Anthology, The Northern Haunts Anthology by Shroud Publishing, The Zombology Series by Library of the Living Dead Press, Dark Recesses Press, Crimson Streets, Flesh and Blood Magazine, Underbelly Zine, Silver Blade, Morpheus Tales, Wrong World, The Willows, Alien Skin Magazine, Aurora Wolf and more.

Please visit his website or Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/johngroverdarkfictionauthor) for more information.

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The author's ultimate collection.

Experience some of John Grover's best horror and dark fantasy fiction. This book collects twenty previously published short stories that have appeared in magazines such as Flesh and Blood magazine, horror anthologies such as Epitaphs, the New England Horror Writers anthology, and his published collections like A Beckoning of Shadows published by Naked Snake Press.Take a shadowy journey through Grover's writing career, a journey that began in the eighties and is still going today with such tales as The Men's Room, Melissa's Wagon, Windblown Shutter, The Mute People and The Heirloom.Contains a preface by the author and introduction by K. H. Koehler

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