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David Haynes



David Haynes has been making up stories since he was very young. His first story entitled, "How the Greenhouse Actually Got Smashed, Dad!" got him into trouble and went unpublished. Nevertheless, the stories continued and the desire to write them down grew stronger. David now writes stories in the genre he loves the most - the dark, mysterious and delicious world of horror! The two main influences on his writing are Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe who he considers masters of the shadowy world. So far he has written a collection of sinister stories set on the dark streets of Victorian London and in the gloriously opulent Paris of the nineteenth century. Both represent his love for the history of our greatest cities and the dark deeds that were done on their shadowy streets. One day he hopes to be able to write full-time in order to get all those stories out of his own mind and into the minds of others.
 

 
Series
Cryptids
   1. Cryptids (2021)
   2. Destroy All Cryptids (2021)
   3. Rose (2022)
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Novels
   The Swimmer (2012)
   The Boy Who Kissed The Sky (2012)
   The Scream of Angels (2014)
   Beneath the Boards (2015)
   I Can See You (2016)
   Boo! (2016)
   Black Pine Creek (2016)
   The Church of Broken Pieces (2017)
   Survive (2017)
   Klondike Slaughter (2018)
   Dead Crow (2018)
   The Bookshop From Hell (2019)
   Bone Snow (2019)
   The Skittering (2020)
   Old Hodmedod (2023)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by David Haynes
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Who Can Save Us Now? (2008)
Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories
edited by
Owen King and John McNally
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Gumbo (2002)
A Celebration of African American Writing
edited by
Marita Golden and E Lynn Harris

Awards
1996 Granta Best of Young American Novelists

David Haynes recommends
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The Flower Sisters (2024)
Michelle Collins Anderson
"Michelle writes stories with a big heart, on family and human relationships and the inevitability of change and loss."
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The House of Deep Water (2020)
Jeni McFarland
"Unflinchingly examines the agonizing links of history and fate and love that inextricably bind the families of River Bend. There is abundant beauty present in the rendering of the darkness in these lives, and also, ultimately, in its presentation of moments of redeeming grace. This novel is a stunner."

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