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Standard Deviations

    “Damanda knows how to tell a fantastic story.”—Elias Witherow, author of The Black Farm

    Prepare to be transported to a world of horror and suspense with NoSleep Podcast favorite Marcus Damanda.

    Meet a serial killer forever trapped in a Super Max prison. A fifteen-year-old girl in 1912, forced to choose between a man she does not love and a boy who might just kill for her. A man who discovers, after forty years, that he has a twin brother… living in his stomach. A cancer-stricken old man who can listen to the dead call up from Hell through his stethoscope.

    From the supernatural to the depravity of real life, each tale in this collection has its own unique flavor, full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. Leave on just one light and settle in for a nightmarish meal of horror you won't soon forget.

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    About the Author: Marcus Damanda

    Marcus Damanda lives in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he’s been writing stories since the age of nine. At various times throughout his life, he played bass guitar for the garage heavy metal band Mother’s Day, wrote for The Dale City Messenger, and published editorials in The Potomac News and The Freelance Star. When not writing furiously for The NoSleep Podcast, he currently teaches middle school English.

    Other books by the author include The Devil in Miss Drake’s Class trilogy: Devils in the Dark, A Devil in Daylight, and The Devil at Play, along with The Salvation State and its sequels Absolution Island and Revelation Way. Standalone books include Dearest Summer and his NoSleep Podcast collections Standard Deviations, Impressions of Death, Hide the Knives, and Murdered Darlings. Earlier works include The Forever Show and Teeth: The Forever Show Book II—for all the vampire fans out there.



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