Carl E. Reed

Member Since:	04/27/2011
Preferred Genres:	Contemporary Fantasy, High / Epic Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Slipstream / Interstices, Traditional Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Horror, Alternate History, Hard Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Postapocalyptic/Dystopian, Soft Science Fiction, Space Opera

Short Bio:

Carl E. Reed joined the Marine Corps in 1981 at the age of 17 and worked the next four years as a photo-journalist in the Far East. Upon discharge in 1985 a succession of sales and marketing jobs followed. He has done improvisational theater, poetry slams and 1, 000-mile rides on a succession of V-twin motorcycles. He last worked as an educational consultant for Loyola Press. His poetry has been published in The Iconoclast; short stories in Black Gate and newWitch magazines. Since joining Book Country he has published six books (individual short stories, some near-novella length). In November of 2014 he completed a 268-page manuscript of thirteen weird tales and a closing narrative poem. Entitled NIGHT TERROR & OTHER WEIRD TALES, the book was posted on Book Country for purposes of work-shopping and generating additional reader comment. He hopes to attract a publisher to this manuscript.

About Carl E. Reed's Reading & Writing

Carl E. Reed inhabits a book-crammed, 2-bedroom apt. above a Chinese restaurant in NW Chicago. An omnivorous reader, Carl practices old-school writer's discipline: He reads 10, 000 sentences for each one that he writes. The tales he tells are Kafkaesque axes, forged to crack open that frozen, inward sea imprisoning both the emotions and the intellect. He hopes that the reader will re-engage with story as the portal of entry into a richer, more fully-realized, culturally-aware and empathetic humanity. He is cheerfully dismissive of all obscurantist cant and dogma and endlessly exasperated at the antics of the ignorant, the willfully stupid and the criminally insane.

Favorite Writers:

Ray Bradbury
H. P. Lovecraft
Stephen King
Robert E. Howard
Philip K. Dick

Favorite Books:

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft
The Shining - Stephen King
The Hour of the Dragon - Robert E. Howard
The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick

Carl E. Reed's Books

Huckleberry Fang

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Reviewed on Book Country


Love Among the Ruins	Reviewed 1 draft on 10/5/2015
Destiny's Bond	Reviewed 1 draft on 11/4/2014 (No longer available for review)
Androids Over New York	Reviewed 1 draft on 10/25/2014
From Reality's Edge	Reviewed 1 draft on 10/10/2014
The Atlantis Affair	Reviewed 1 draft on 10/3/2014 (No longer available for review)
Hands of Ash	Reviewed 1 draft on 5/8/2014 (No longer available for review)
The Howling of Ghosts	Reviewed 1 draft on 4/15/2014
Soulweaver	Reviewed 1 draft on 2/8/2014
THE COMMERCIAL	Reviewed 1 draft on 1/5/2014 (No longer available for review)
Staircase	Reviewed 1 draft on 3/1/2013
Spark	Reviewed 1 draft on 2/27/2013
The Last Tragedy	Reviewed 1 draft on 2/21/2013 (No longer available for review)
Death's Justice	Reviewed 1 draft on 4/9/2012
The Agony of the Gods	Reviewed 1 draft on 3/29/2012 (No longer available for review)
A Kaliphian Matter II: Transformations	Reviewed 1 draft on 3/11/2012
The Phoenix Diary	Reviewed 1 draft on 3/5/2012 (No longer available for review)
Sly! The Rogue Reconsidered	Reviewed 1 draft on 2/9/2012
And The Last Shall Be First	Reviewed 1 draft on 1/20/2012
Monkey Feet	Reviewed 1 draft on 9/5/2011 (No longer available for review)
Paradigm Shift	Reviewed 1 draft on 6/11/2011
The Contest	Reviewed 1 draft on 5/11/2011
Principium	Reviewed 1 draft on 5/3/2011 (No longer available for review)
Shield & Crocus	Reviewed 1 draft on 4/28/2011
The Raveled Sleeve of Care	Reviewed 1 draft on 4/27/2011
Fire Red	Reviewed 1 draft on 4/27/2011
Step Right Up	Reviewed 1 draft on 4/27/2011

Carl E. Reed

Short Bio:

About Carl E. Reed's Reading & Writing

Carl E. Reed's Books

Huckleberry Fang

Reviewed on Book Country