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In 2012, Dathan Auerbach published a striking debut novel titled “Penpal.” Composed of linked stories that initially appeared on the Internet site Reddit, the completed novel was released ...
Dathan Auerbach's story "Penpal" was originally posted in a Reddit horror forum. Now it's become a novel and attracted interest from an Oscar-winning producer.
Using r/nosleep as a launching pad, author Dathan Auerbach turned his short story from a single post to a successful Kickstarter campaign and potential movie.
Dathan Auerbach only wanted to scare a few people on Reddit. It was September 2011, and the Pensacola, Florida, native was checking out some user-posted stories on "NoSleep," a subreddit. The ...
Dathan Auerbach’s pitch-black "Bad Man," a horror thriller that preys on familial fears, is a study of the lonely existence of a social outcast whose life turns on one tragic day in his ...
The bleak psychological horror of Dathan Auerbach’s Bad Man sits at the opposite end of the spectrum from Cantero’s more playful, self-referential novel.
In 2012, Dathan Auerbach published a striking debut novel called “Penpal.” Comprised of linked stories that initially appeared on the internet site Reddit, the completed novel was released ...
Many stories have become published novels, including Dathan Auerbach's "Penpal" and Matt Query's "My Wife and I Bought a Ranch," which he published as Old Country.
One of the most famous examples of this is Penpal, a novel by Dathan Auerbach that also began as a serialisation.
Some of the stories have been so popular that authors have gone on to publish book-length versions, like Dathan Auerbach's " Penpal." ...
Bad Man Dathan Auerbach. Blumhouse, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-54292-0 Auerbach follows his first novel, 2012’s Penpal, with a dark and disturbing horror thriller set in the Florida Panhandle.