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Rick Claypool

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Rick Claypool is the author of Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War (Anxiety Press 2024), Tentacle Head (2022), The Mold Farmer (Six Gallery Press 2020) and Leech Girl Lives (Spaceboy Books 2017). He lives in Rhode Island.

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SKULL SLIME TENTACLE WITCH WAR is out TODAY

Hey guess what.

My new novel SKULL SLIME TENTACLE WITCH WAR comes out TODAY!

It’s available on Amazon and I have signed copies you can purchase from me directly.

Also: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine just published an interview with me about the book. I think I’m gonna get Rebecca Gransden’s opening paragraph carved into my grave stone:

Anarchic weirdism triumphs in Skull Slime Tentacle Witch W

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Average rating: 4.41 · 181 ratings · 64 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mold Farmer 4.31 avg rating — 55 ratings — 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
	Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War 4.65 avg rating — 31 ratings — 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
	Not My President, The Anthology of Dissent by Josh Gaines (Editor), David W. Mack (Illustrator), Geoffry Smalley (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings	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
	Leech Girl Lives 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — 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
	Tentacle Head by Rick Claypool (Goodreads Author), Sarah Allen Reed (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 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
	Dark Spores (Stories We Tell After Midnight, # 4) by Carol Gyzander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Clay McLeod Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	The Future Will Be Written By Robots by Laura Morrison, Zach Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Rick Claypool (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	Monsters in the Mills by L.E. Daniels (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christa Carmen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Faye Ringel (Contributor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2024	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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Rick’s Quotes

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire

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“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realised that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”
― Samuel Beckett, Watt

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