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Aaron Dries

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in Maitland, NSW, Australia

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Horror, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Avid traveler, former pizza boy, retail clerk, kitchen hand, aged care worker, video director and copywriter, Aaron Dries was born and raised in New South Wales, Australia. When asked why he writes horror, his standard reply is that when it comes to scaring people, writing pays slightly better than jumping out from behind doors. He is the author of the award-winning House of Sighs, and his subsequent novels, The Fallen Boys and A Place for Sinners are just as--if not more--twisted than his debut. Feel free to drop him a line at aarondries.com. He won't bite. Much. ...more

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Aaron Dries's Blog: Spreading the gore since '84

My top 100 films of all time

It's my top 100 (and you can cry if you want to)...

Whilst there's bound to be cross-over, don't read this list expecting the IMDB top 100. My brain is wired in weird and wonderful ways, so it should be of no surprise that this list film crosses the entire spectrum. From childhood cartoons to Academy Award winners. From quiet dramas to screeching horror. It's all here. And it's all me. This Top

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Average rating: 3.76 · 3,175 ratings · 732 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dirty Heads 3.57 avg rating — 1,366 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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
	Where the Dead Go to Die by Aaron Dries (Goodreads Author), Mark Allan Gunnells (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 2016 — 4 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
	Odd Man Out by James Newman (Goodreads Author), Aaron Dries (Goodreads Author) (Forward) 4.20 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2016 — 2 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
	House of Sighs 3.85 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2011 — 8 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
	The Fallen Boys 3.91 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2012 — 6 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
	A Place for Sinners 3.42 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts by Richard Chizmar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian James Freeman (Goodreads Author), Lisa Morton (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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
	Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts 4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings — 4 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
	And the Night Growled Back 3.61 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2013	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
	Cabezales sucios 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“But lurking behind every summer was a fall just waiting to happen.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

tags: anxiety, depression, doom, dread, fall, fear, seasons, summer, waiting

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“This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.

Not this.”
― Aaron Dries, Where the Dead Go to Die

tags: emotional-pain, helping-others, horror, inspirational, life, love, motherhood, motherhood-quotes, regret, regret-quotes, scary, thriller

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“Behind every summer is a fall just waiting to happen.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

tags: change, dread, failure, inevitable, mental-health, profound, scared, seasons, struggle

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“This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.

Not this.”
― Aaron Dries, Where the Dead Go to Die

tags: emotional-pain, helping-others, horror, inspirational, life, love, motherhood, motherhood-quotes, regret, regret-quotes, scary, thriller

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“I'm waltzing with the wrecking ball
'Cause this ain't my home anymore.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

tags: destruction, failure-and-success, family, giving-up, goodbye, helpless, home, knocked-down, regret, tragedy

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“Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was five in the morning. The world was blue. He went to the refrigerator and opened the door, looking for answers to mysteries he would never comprehend. So he closed it and settled for water instead.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

tags: depressed, detective, father, husband, lonely, mystery, sad, unknown-quotes

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“We're nothing. We're dust.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

tags: bleak, death, depressed, horror, life, mystery, nothingness, sad

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“There's no sadder sight than that of a child's coffin.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

tags: child, death, dying, infant, life, reality, sad, saddest-thing

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Strictly real horror — 225 members — last activity Dec 20, 2020 04:15AM
Group based on true horror books. No horror erotica or any of that nonsense. Will have group reads every month, rotating between classic horror (Lovec ...more

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