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My out-of-print and hard-to-find 2005 novel HELLz BELLz will be published this summer as an eBook. Like BAD JUJU before it, BELLz died when HellBound Books suffered a series of fatal misfortunes.

Of all my books, HELLz BELLz has the best rating at GoodReads.Soon it will have a new format and brand new cover.

I'll make details available in coming weeks. For now all I can say is that HELL BELLz is com Read more of this blog post »

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	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 2 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Michael A. Arnzen (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Nathan Ballingrud (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 119 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
	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 4 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 5 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Deborah Sheldon (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 51 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
	Daemon of the Dark Wood 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Deadcore by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author), David James Keaton (Goodreads Author), Edward M. Erdelac (Goodreads Author) 3.29 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 6 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author), Cheryl Mullenax, Melanie Harding-Shaw (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Bad Juju 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	Dime Detective 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012	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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The Books of Enoch: Complete Collection - Featuring 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, 3 Enoch, Original Illustrations, and Bonus Apocryphal Texts (Illustrated)

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“A woman lies down with the devil, she should expect to cach some hell. One way or another.”
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“Every night at 2:37 a.m., I walk outside my apartment complex, naked, and I stand in the middle of the road and scream. I scream loud enough to wake up my neighbors, long enough that my voice goes hoarse. One time, I almost got hit by”
― Randy Chandler, Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2

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“Yes. Within three minutes of making her acquaintance, he’d wanted to fuck this bug-eyed weirdo blind. Yes.”
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

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“A woman lies down with the devil, she should expect to cach some hell. One way or another.”
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“Normally most religious people will talk 'at' you for GOD. But spiritual people will talk 'with' you about GOD.”
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“He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

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