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DATHAN AUERBACH was born in the southern U.S. and has lived there for most of his life. In 2011, he began posting a series of stories to a forum dedicated to horror. After a Kickstarter campaign that raised over 1000% of its goal, he was able to release the revised and expanded versions of his story as the novel Penpal.

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BAD MAN Launch at Open Books

Of all the moments and events that I had in front of me, I think I was most nervous about this one.

Sometime well after I'd signed with Doubleday, but well before Bad Man was released or even finished, I had a conversation with the publicity department. More specifically, I had a conversation with Michael Goldsmith -- the same one man army that would later help my signing at Comic Con run so sm

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	Penpal 3.86 avg rating — 45,121 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

tags: forgetting, happiness, life, memories, memory, remembering, wishful-thinking

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“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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“Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

tags: forget, forgetting, gift, memories, memory, selective-memory, trama

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Which Horror/Psychological Thriller should we read?

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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The Shining (The Shining, #1) by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

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The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman

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Carrie by Stephen King

5 votes 6.5%

Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places, #1) by Jeremy Bates

Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates

4 votes 5.2%

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

4 votes 5.2%

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

4 votes 5.2%

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

4 votes 5.2%

Heartsick (Gretchen Lowell, #1) by Chelsea Cain

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

3 votes 3.9%

Deadly Messengers by Susan May

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Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow

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