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ABOUT ME
Rachel M. Martens is the writer of the Poe gothic thriller series, including Poe: Nevermore (2013), a First Place winner in Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media’s Paranormal Awards, as well as the short horror collection Midnight Hour (2017) and the novel Metalhead (2019). Her short fiction has also appeared in the anthologies Twisted Love (2021) and Stranger Than Truth (2021). Martens resides in Wisconsin and travels extensively, taking inspiration from the locales she has visited and the books she has read along the way. Her favorite time to write is in the midnight hours with a storm as background music and a mug of tea close at hand. Of her writing, Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media has said, "Ms. Martens succeeds at painting dark, suspenseful, sometimes horrific pictures. It is the kind of psychological horror that locking the doors and windows and reading with the lights on will not keep out."
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Writers I admire include but are not limited to: Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Bronte, Stephen King, John Milton, H.P. Lovecraft, Karin Slaughter, Charles Dickens, George R. R. Martin, Bram Stoker, Victor Hugo, Ayn Rand, and George Orwell.
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Are you looking for the informal bio? Read on! I have an overweight Boston Terrier named Milton who is basically my child, a husband with completely different quirks than me (we keep each other entertained), and a raging addiction to hot tea. When I want to relax, I watch scary movies with my hubby and my dog, walk in the woods, or read/write smutty fanfiction. No, I will not be posting a link to my fanfiction because I would die of embarrassment...but I will be very flattered on the day that someone manages to find it and identify it as mine.