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Daniel Kraus
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NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 20+ more, visit the site or just trust me.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · Jul 26
Holy hell. NYT raves don’t get any better:

“A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction. Mysterious and full of grace, rambling and ducking and shifting for 285 dizzying, blood-soaked, astonishing pages.”
New York Times image of the angel down book cover
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mangiotto.bsky.social
Upon the publication of my friend @danielkraus.com's definitive work on George Romero's zombie series, here's that time he asked me to moderate a conversation between him and the master Tom Savini: youtu.be/lgOa0E4x5lE
The Lasting Legacy of George A. Romero: A Conversation with Tom Savini and Daniel Kraus
YouTube video by Tor Publishing Group
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November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Some early enthusiasm for my cinematic memoir PARTIALLY DEVOURED from man of the people @paultremblay.bsky.social 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️
A graphic that has Paul’s quote and the cover to partially devoured
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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davidcirce.bsky.social
Some witchy vibes for the holiday.

Blood Sugar. Written by Daniel Kraus with cover art by Paul Mann.

#Art #BookSky #PinUp
A book cover featuring a witch on a broomstick in her lingerie She’s on a calendar for the Halloween month - October
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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apersonfromflorida.bsky.social
#Booksky #OctoberReads were spookier than what the reviews give I promise lol. there was just a ton of 4⭐ ratings and only two books that cracked through that ceiling, with Angel Down being an absolute highlight for the month.
October 2025 Reading Wrap-up 12 books read across 4,902 pages, given an average rating of 4.0 stars The highest rated reads were Angel Down by Daniel Kraus, The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J. Hackwith, and Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz Average book length was 421 pages with an average finish time of 2 days Out of books read, 92% were fiction and 8% were nonfiction, with the most popular genres in descending order being Fantasy, LGBTQIA+, Literary, Horror, and Historical The remaining two charts show pages read per day and that 100% of books read this month were print editions.
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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clancymorg.bsky.social
I've been recommended Whalefall by Daniel Kraus quite a few times by people and my partner recently brought it home from a LFL, so I'm finally having myself sit down and read it. Exciting!
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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rexstephens.bsky.social
One of my top anticipated reads to close out 2025. If Daniel Kraus wrote one superhero book, it had to be this.
sgj.bsky.social Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 7d
Man, this is some high-calibre, impactful, nuanced comic booking—really strong storytelling. Or, another way to say it? It’s @danielkraus.com
Athanasia graphic novel: a young girl with a shovel, in front of the gates to a superhero cemetery. Lots of radioactive green on this cover.
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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WHALEFALL by Daniel Kraus
Normally my ultimate nightmare (ocean horror is the one thing that genuinely freaks me out) but my boss recommended it and it turned out to be absolutely phenomenal
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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jolrosenberg.bsky.social
1/ Ihr mögt es richtig eklig? So mit Gedärmen und brechenden Knochen und das ganze minutiös beschrieben? Dann ist "Whalefall - Im Wal gefangen" von Daniel Kraus zumindest in der zweiten Hälfte euer Buch. Die erste eine sensible Vater-Sohn-Geschichte, die ich echt gern mochte.
Ein Screenshot der Rezension mit dem Cover des Buches. Meine Webseite ist in Grautönen gehalten. Das Cover zeigt die Sillhouette eines nach oben schwimmenden Wals vor blauem Hintergrund.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Some early enthusiasm for my cinematic memoir PARTIALLY DEVOURED from man of the people @paultremblay.bsky.social 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️
A graphic that has Paul’s quote and the cover to partially devoured
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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raforall.bsky.social
Hey library people-- If you are attending the free @libraryjournal.bsky.social @slj.com LibraryCon Live! Catch me and @danielkraus.com at 1:15 ET doing the afternoon keynote.

You can still sign up. It is free. Access to recording for 3 months.

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LibraryCon Live! 2025
Join Library Journal and School Library Journal on November 6 for our ninth annual LibraryCon Live! We're excited to present a day-long celebration of fandom, spotlighting genre fiction for adults and...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Tomorrow night (Thursday), the last ANGEL DOWN event of 2025!

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Graphic that reads “an evening with Daniel Kraus” with a picture where I look kind of stoned
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Hung out with NYT best-selling author @danielkraus.com before a masterclass around one of his novels!

This was PAY THE PIPER, Daniel's alchemical rendering of horror director & writer the late George A. Romero’s notes into a lyrical, atmospheric novel.
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💙📚 #horror #NOLA #zombies #monsters
Me and Daniel Kraus, both in charcoal sweaters, indoors, smiling. A book, Pay the Piper, on a red and blue striped book chair next to a mug of coffee with a scary gremlin on it. Bookcase in the background. Daniel perched on a chair, thinking. To his right is a small table with a Yeti microphone and a copy of PAY Pay the Piper on it. A black boot photo-bombs just under the mic. Slide with a quotation from Pay the Piper: “If New Orleans had any magic at all, it was its knack for taking the world’s oddments of augury, conjury, devilry, wizardry, astrology, alchemy, necromancy, prophecy, witchery, and trickery, and stirring them into a gumbo that tasted better than any of those ingredients alone.” / George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus, Pay the Piper, p. 59.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I’m reading a book and finding it super choppy. It’s like, very literal? I may have ruined my brain with all that beautiful @sgj.bsky.social and @danielkraus.com prose 😭
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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ROTTERS by @danielkraus.com Finished book no. 41 for the year and this was a perfect read to close out October and welcome November. I loved this book and it’s a hard book to love. Any book that uses the phrase “coffin liquor” would be. I should reread The Autumnal now for a perfect double feature
Cover of the book ROTTERS by Daniel Kraus.
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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sgj.bsky.social
Man, this is some high-calibre, impactful, nuanced comic booking—really strong storytelling. Or, another way to say it? It’s @danielkraus.com
Athanasia graphic novel: a young girl with a shovel, in front of the gates to a superhero cemetery. Lots of radioactive green on this cover.
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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margueriteturl2.bsky.social
November hopefuls. Looking forward to all of these from some of my very favorites! I also forgot to put The dark tower IV Wizard and Glass in this stack, I will also be consuming that throughout the month. @claymcleod.bsky.social @joshmalerman.bsky.social @catrionaward.bsky.social @danielkraus.com
Stack of books I hope to get through this month! Top is on my kindle Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman Watching Evil Dead by Josh Malerman Dollface by Lindy Ryan Nowhere Burninv by Catriona Ward and Partially Devoured by Daniel Kraus
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Superheroes never really die.
In Athanasia Cemetery, their corpses bleed power.

ATHANASIA — a haunting new vision of the superhero genre from Daniel Kraus & Dani. On sale now! #HorrorComics #Athanasia #VaultComics
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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neonichiban.bsky.social
Looking for some bloodcurdling (and 👻FREE) Halloween reads🎃? Welcome to your gratis graveyard of comics...
🐐 Harrow County 1 (Cullen Bunn & @mrtylercrook.bsky.social )
🙏 Cult of the Lamb 1 (@alexpaknadel.bsky.social & Troy Little)
🍂 The Autumnal 1 (Daniel Kraus & @chrisshehanart.bsky.social)
October 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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@atriabooks.bsky.social and my Etsy shop threadsofdread.com have teamed up for a totally sweet giveaway on Instagram: books & tees for @sgj.bsky.social’s THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER and @danielkraus.com’s ANGEL DOWN! What a pairing, yeah? Ends Nov 2… come on over!
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October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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eckospider.bsky.social
Day 5 of Halloween comic book recs!
THE AUTUMNAL from Vault comics

By @danielkraus.com & @chrisshehanart.bsky.social

The perfect Halloween read as you watch the leave turn dark, fall and then try to kill you

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Folk Horror at Its Finest | Vault’s The Autumnal | Halloween 🎃 Comic Book recommendations
YouTube video by Next Issue Podcast
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October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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margueriteturl2.bsky.social
Some seriously awesome #bookmail today!! Thank you to @torbooks.bsky.social
for this bound manuscript of @mathildazeller.bsky.social
new one and MASSIVE thanks to @danielkraus.com and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
for this arc of Daniel’s nonfiction/memoir book out next March! So excited!
Arcs it looks like you in the dark book by Mathilda Zeller and Partially Devoured book by Daniel Kraus
October 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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civilwarmemory.bsky.social
When you get right down to it, there was nothing preventing Trump from tearing down the entire White House complex this week. Let that sink in.
October 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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amabel.bsky.social
during this spooky season, might I recommend for the adventurous my horror board game about caretaking for, and being abused by, a loved one returned from the dead

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But Then She Came Back
Game design: Amabel Holland Hex Number: 78 Duration: 45 minutes Players: 1 Solitaire Suitability: High Theme: Horror MSRP: $30.00 "It hurt so much when she died — but then she came back, and it hur...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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If you missed Monday's LAST KRAUS ON THE LEFT, you missed a ton of news!

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Issue #85:
- Telluride
- Partially Devoured's 1st reading
- I book a room at the Overlook
- The NYT gabs about Angel Down
- Bestsellerdom
- Whalefall deluxe edition!
a photo from telluride with all the guest authors
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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If you missed Monday's LAST KRAUS ON THE LEFT, you missed a ton of news!

Subscribe for free:
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Issue #85:
- Telluride
- Partially Devoured's 1st reading
- I book a room at the Overlook
- The NYT gabs about Angel Down
- Bestsellerdom
- Whalefall deluxe edition!
a photo from telluride with all the guest authors
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM