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Amanda M. Blake
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Horror and fantasy author of QUESTION NOT MY SALT and the Thorns series; mid-age goth, horror movie aficionado. Coming soon: IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT (2026), MASQUE (2027). 🪚

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Without downloading any new pics, what's it like dating you?

This picture is apparently evergreen with me.
Donald Pleasance in Columbo sipping spirits and saying, "This is dreadful."
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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If you need a night of nausea, awkwardness, anxiety, and spine-tingling Thanksgiving terror, try my short novel QUESTION NOT MY SALT, an extreme gastro horror novel. Sip and spit, everyone, and don't question Mother's recipes. geni.us/Question
This Thanksgiving, get together with good friends, close family, and great food for a once-in-a-lifetime feast. Mother has worked for days to make sure the menu is just right. No substitutions. No seconds. No questions. No salt. No exit. QUESTION NOT MY SALT by Amanda M. Blake. Image is the novel cover and a fall leaves scene.
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The first horror novel I wrote entirely from a man's POV was DEEP DOWN, a creature feature about a man and his dog entering a cave during the end of the world.

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Amanda M. Blake's DEEP DOWN cover with a woman monster screaming while covered in cobwebs.
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Pictures don't do its size justice, but here are the best pictures and one to show comparison.
Final instar of the Polyphemus caterpillar, a big green and apparently voracious caterpillar. Pictures don't do its size justice, but here's the best comparison of my hand versus green Polyphemus caterpillar.
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Without downloading new pictures, describe your gender.
Donald Pleasance in Columbo drinking an alcoholic beverage and saying "This is dreadful."
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Critters and creatures, it's time to sip and spit. QUESTION NOT MY SALT is the Thanksgiving horror you're looking for, a quick-read novel on the milder side of extreme, with plenty of cringe and gastro horror. geni.us/Question
Cover of QUESTION NOT MY SALT by Amanda M. Blake, an autumnal cutting board of ingredients and body parts. Trope arrows point to girl dinner & family dinner, pies, Mother's secret recipes, spit and pass, Jell-O shots, so many casseroles, finger food, give thanks.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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So everyone thinks it's Mariah Carey's time now, but no. It's my time.

It's time to sip and spit.

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Book cover of Question Not My Salt by Amanda M. Blake, with salt, assorted food, and body parts on a cutting board. Text box: Thanksgiving is a time for good food, cozy sweaters, and new extreme horror by Amanda M. Blake. Bon appetit.
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I realized what watching Mike Johnson reminded me of.
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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I took a bite before I remembered to take a picture.
Dracula iced sugar cookie
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Here he is soaking in the sunbeams.
Cassidy, a fluffy orange cat, soaking in sunbeams on a table in front of a window.
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Ah! It slipped by me, but TOOTH & CLAW (Meridian 7), my demon killer meets a vampire and werewolf couple, urban fantasy erotic romance came out a few days ago. This story was originally a standalone but was adjusted to fit into the Meridian series.
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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We have to go back in time and destroy AI at the source.
Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the school library, saying, "There's a demon in the Internet."
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Amanda M. Blake, purveyor of dark fiction, quiet to extreme. I hale from North Texas.

I painted this in college. It is clearly a self-portrait.

(Part of my Milton final project. Bonus if you somehow recognize the body reference.)

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Painting of Satan being dragged down into hell by transformation, in blue, red, yellow, and white. Inspired by John Milton's Paradise Lost.
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Pedro Pascal, best known for his role as Eddie in the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Four, "The Freshman"
Pedro Pascal as Eddie in "The Freshman," Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4, Episode 1
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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In case you're interested in my 'be careful what you wish for' demonic circus erotic horror romance series, it's complete and starts with FORTUNE.

www.amazon.com/Fortune-Arca...
September 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My very extreme horror novel In the Dollhouse We All Wait has been picked up by Crystal Lake's Torrid Waters imprint, for publication in 2026. They previously published my other extreme horror novel Question Not My Salt. 1/
Creepy blonde doll with half-open eyes.
September 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Received some good news last week and celebrated with chocolate cake. Announcement to come...
A doll with curly blonde hair and pink polka-dotted romper contemplates a white plate holding a chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
September 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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If you want to brush up on my poetry, horror collection DEAD ENDS is an exploration of death, dying, and the undead, natural and supernatural, with poetry short and long, rhyming and nonrhyming.

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Dead Ends cover: A dark poetry collection by Amanda M. Blake, showing a haunted house with doors opening to the floating lower legs of a dead person.
September 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Squirm Books is putting out SKIN DEEP, a queer anthology of beauty and body image, in February 2026, and my mall horror story "Changing Room" has found a home in its TOC.
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It's a little early if you prefer to read it during its own season, but my (gateway extreme) family dinner horror novel set during Thanksgiving is a quick, gross roller-coaster ride and my most popular book. www.amazon.com/Question-Not...

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This Thanksgiving, get together with good friends, close family, and great food for a once-in-a-lifetime feast. Mother has worked for days to make sure the menu is just right. No substitutions. No seconds. No questions. No salt. No exit. QUESTION NOT MY SALT, Amanda M. Blake. (Image is the book cover with an autumnal cutting board, vegetables, and assorted body parts and an autumnal tree scene.)
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Want to catch up on the Meridian dark erotic romance urban fantasy series? Gargoyles, angels, demons, hunters, vampires, and werewolves, oh my. The most recent book is available for preorder, but you can find all seven at Amazon or Totally Bound.

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Preorder Tooth & Claw (Meridian Book 7), Aurelia T. Evans. General release 28th October.
August 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I shared my quintessential creature feature last week, so today I'll share my first, DEEP DOWN, in which a man and his dog enter a cave during an apocalypse with no intention of leaving. The only thing to do is go deeper: www.amazon.com/Deep-Down-Am...
Cobwebby cave monster cover for Amanda M. Blake's Deep Down.
August 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Had to adult on the hottest day, so I'm just getting to this. Bc it came up a couple times this week, I'm promoting creature feature OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER. You meet the monster in the first chapter, but that's not where the tension comes from. www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit...

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Cover of creature feature novel Out of Curiosity and Hunger, from the author of Deep Down, Amanda M. Blake. Cover is graytone with distorted anatomical horses, suggesting monstrosity.
July 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Seems like a good time to share my Thorns series, a mash-up of fairy tales, myths, and urban legends. It's halfway finished but has a satisfying soft ending with Book 5, should I perish before publishing anything else.

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Covers from the Thorns series by Amanda M. Blake: Thorns, Rose Red, Bluebirds, Puppeteer, and Crooked House.
July 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I'm so excited to return to the @quillandcrow.com fold, this time with my beautifully lush manuscript MASQUE. It was a bucket list story to write, with influences from historical romance, gothic fiction, noir, slashers, and body horror, and I can't believe it's going out into the world in 2027.
July 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM