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Bryan Smith is the two-time Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than fifty horror and crime novels and novellas, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, Last of the Ravagers, and many more. He will soon have a story in the forthcoming landmark anthology The End of the World As We Know It: Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, “The best zombie novel I’ve ever read.” 68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting. Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Comics. His latest release is The Unseen III: FInal Slash. A brand-new novel entitled Monstrous is coming from Flame Tree Press in 2026.

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Testimony of the Damned

I’ve read a bunch of Smith’s books over the last few years, and I’m a big fan. He’s an easy go-to for compulsive page-turners full of colorful characters, action-packed sequences, creative kills, and big scares.

Zachary Ashford, author of THE MORASS

Bryan Smith offers up intense, action-packed horror that’s scary, heartfelt, and always a hell of a good time!

Brian Asman, author of GOOD DOGS

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