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Adam Howe

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in London, The United Kingdom

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Crime, Horror, Humor and Comedy

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Stephen King, Joe Lansdale, Elmore Leonard, Shane Black

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Adam Howe writes the twisted fiction your mother warned you about. A British writer of fiction and screenplays, he lives in London with his partner, their daughter, and a hellhound named Gino. Writing as Garrett Addams, his short story Jumper was chosen by Stephen King as the winner of the international On Writing contest, and published in the paperback/Kindle editions of King’s memoir. His fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Thuglit, Mythic Delirium, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and other places. He is the author of One Tough Bastard, Scapegoat (with James Newman), Tijuana Donkey Showdown, Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet, and Black Cat Mojo, and the editor of the Wrestle Maniacs anthology. In the pipeline: The Polack, a gritty 1930s noi ...more

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	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1 by Randy Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Mullenax (Editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet 4.32 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Gator Bait 4.19 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2015	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
	Scapegoat by Adam Howe (Goodreads Author), James Newman (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Tijuana Donkey Showdown 4.54 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	One Tough Bastard 4.31 avg rating — 86 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
	Black Cat Mojo 4.42 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Wrestle Maniacs by Adam Howe (Goodreads Author), Duncan P. Bradshaw (Goodreads Author), James Newman (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Of Moose and Men: A Reggie Levine Novelette 4.38 avg rating — 16 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
	Black Cat Mojo & Die, Dog Or Eat The Hatchet 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017	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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Adam Howe answered Ugghhh's question: Hey Adam, what is the name of the your short story about this guy who goes to retrieve a mouse from a rather unusual place? And where can i find it? I think its your best story after Due Dog or eat the Hatchet. Hi Mahesh, that one's called "Foreign Bodies," and was first published in an anthology called Chopping Block Party. It's since been reprinted in Year's Best Hardcore Horror and Appalling Stories anthos. And here's an audio version narrated by Jason Hi See Full Answer
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“I deserve to be blown! First! Before the fucking jacuzzi!”
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“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
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“It's true what they say. Never meet your heroes. It turns out they're all a bunch of fucking assholes. They're probably the reason you turned into such a fucking asshole - because they were your heroes and you spent all your time trying to be like them.”
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“I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.”
― Jean Claude Van Damme

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