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""I absolutely devoured Luke Dumas's new nightmare and have zero regrets. Nothing tastes as good as a Bachman book in overdrive --think Thinner for our modern medical times -- where you burn through the pages faster than you can flip them."" --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes Praise for The Paleontologist ""I read The Paleontologist. It scared the shit out of me!""--Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Praise for A History of Fear ""A methodical story about evil--its mystery and its toll--takes its murderous narrator past the brink of sanity. . . . Lean and propulsive, this dissection of evil marches forward with a deadly logic and sleight of hand, with occasional gaps filled in by an enterprising journalist and a Scottish information commissioner. The key is that we feel for Grayson as he leads us up to the brink of his terrible deed. The characters surrounding him, from his ghoulish family to his annoying roommate to his eventual victim, come to life on the page, all part of Grayson's living nightmare. . . . It's a patient pursuit and a patient book, one that builds without the reader quite realizing it. It blurs the line between mental illness and something less definable, more supernatural and sinister. A muscular, enigmatic, and devilishly smart read."" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review ""[A] stellar debut, a complex whydunit . . . . Admirers of Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist will be riveted."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""A delicious walk along the razor's edge between the imagined and the supernatural, A History of Fear is candy for readers who like their thrills real and their horror a worrying whisper in their head."" --Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist and The Residence ""A delicious and intense psychological thriller with just enough supernatural to have horror overtones. If ""Night at the Museum"" meets The Shining with a heavy Jurassic Park influence has an appeal, then this is the book for you. Be prepared for surprises the whole way.""--Barnes and Noble, Monthly Pick ""Attention, please, Blumhouse: here's your next blockbuster. The Paleontologist is Night at the Museum as reimagined by Michael Crichton and Stephen King--an extravagantly fun creature-feature, a shivery haunted-house chiller, and an unexpectedly moving meditation on grief. Luke Dumas's uncommonly intelligent novels--evocative and provocative enough for the book-club set, sufficiently scary (and then some) for those who like to keep their pulses hard at work--thrill me and move me and thrill me some more.""--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Praise for The Paleontologist ""I read The Paleontologist. It scared the shit out of me!""--Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Praise for A History of Fear ""A methodical story about evil--its mystery and its toll--takes its murderous narrator past the brink of sanity. . . . Lean and propulsive, this dissection of evil marches forward with a deadly logic and sleight of hand, with occasional gaps filled in by an enterprising journalist and a Scottish information commissioner. The key is that we feel for Grayson as he leads us up to the brink of his terrible deed. The characters surrounding him, from his ghoulish family to his annoying roommate to his eventual victim, come to life on the page, all part of Grayson's living nightmare. . . . It's a patient pursuit and a patient book, one that builds without the reader quite realizing it. It blurs the line between mental illness and something less definable, more supernatural and sinister. A muscular, enigmatic, and devilishly smart read."" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review ""[A] stellar debut, a complex whydunit . . . . Admirers of Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist will be riveted."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""A delicious walk along the razor's edge between the imagined and the supernatural, A History of Fear is candy for readers who like their thrills real and their horror a worrying whisper in their head."" --Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist and The Residence ""A delicious and intense psychological thriller with just enough supernatural to have horror overtones. If ""Night at the Museum"" meets The Shining with a heavy Jurassic Park influence has an appeal, then this is the book for you. Be prepared for surprises the whole way.""--Barnes and Noble, Monthly Pick ""Attention, please, Blumhouse: here's your next blockbuster. The Paleontologist is Night at the Museum as reimagined by Michael Crichton and Stephen King--an extravagantly fun creature-feature, a shivery haunted-house chiller, and an unexpectedly moving meditation on grief. Luke Dumas's uncommonly intelligent novels--evocative and provocative enough for the book-club set, sufficiently scary (and then some) for those who like to keep their pulses hard at work--thrill me and move me and thrill me some more.""--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

""A deliciously mean romp of a novel that eviscerates America's skinny obsession, using its sharpest canines. A true delight that shines insight on what it's like to be fat in a world obsessed with Instagram perfection."" --Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors and A Better World ""Deeply unsettling, complex, and visceral. Nothing Tastes as Good is a grotesque body horror that perfectly encapsulates the destructive pitfalls of our modern Ozempic era. It's a book that will eat away at you with every page, leaving you hungry for more."" --Liann Zhang, internationally bestselling author of Julie Chan Is Dead ""I absolutely devoured Luke Dumas's new nightmare and have zero regrets. Nothing tastes as good as a Bachman book in overdrive--think Thinner for our modern medical times--where you burn through the pages faster than you can flip them."" --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes ""A searing, blisteringly aggressive critique of identity, queerness, and weight loss, this book shocked me and brutalized me in equal measure. Nothing Tastes as Good reminded me of when I watched The Substance for the very first time. I was enthralled, disgusted, and deeply moved."" --Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke ""Luke Dumas has served up something truly special here. Nothing Tastes as Good is gripping, funny, angry, heartbreaking, urgent, honest, unsparing, and more than a little terrifying. A must-read for anyone with body issues--which is to say, anyone with a body."" --Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary ""A staggeringly honest exploration of how shame, cruelty and the hunger for acceptance can make us feel sub-human. Visceral and vicious, horrifying and heart-wrenching, unflinching and unputdownable. Pulling no punches, this is the quintessential novel about the horrors of fatphobia, weight loss, and diet culture."" --Rachel Harrison, USA Today bestselling author of Play Nice and So Thirsty Praise for The Paleontologist ""I read The Paleontologist. It scared the shit out of me!""--Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Praise for A History of Fear ""A methodical story about evil--its mystery and its toll--takes its murderous narrator past the brink of sanity. . . . Lean and propulsive, this dissection of evil marches forward with a deadly logic and sleight of hand, with occasional gaps filled in by an enterprising journalist and a Scottish information commissioner. The key is that we feel for Grayson as he leads us up to the brink of his terrible deed. The characters surrounding him, from his ghoulish family to his annoying roommate to his eventual victim, come to life on the page, all part of Grayson's living nightmare. . . . It's a patient pursuit and a patient book, one that builds without the reader quite realizing it. It blurs the line between mental illness and something less definable, more supernatural and sinister. A muscular, enigmatic, and devilishly smart read."" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review ""[A] stellar debut, a complex whydunit . . . . Admirers of Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist will be riveted."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""A delicious walk along the razor's edge between the imagined and the supernatural, A History of Fear is candy for readers who like their thrills real and their horror a worrying whisper in their head."" --Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist and The Residence ""A delicious and intense psychological thriller with just enough supernatural to have horror overtones. If ""Night at the Museum"" meets The Shining with a heavy Jurassic Park influence has an appeal, then this is the book for you. Be prepared for surprises the whole way.""--Barnes and Noble, Monthly Pick ""Attention, please, Blumhouse: here's your next blockbuster. The Paleontologist is Night at the Museum as reimagined by Michael Crichton and Stephen King--an extravagantly fun creature-feature, a shivery haunted-house chiller, and an unexpectedly moving meditation on grief. Luke Dumas's uncommonly intelligent novels--evocative and provocative enough for the book-club set, sufficiently scary (and then some) for those who like to keep their pulses hard at work--thrill me and move me and thrill me some more.""--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

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Luke Dumas is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear. He is the winner of the 2024 ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, and his work has been optioned for film and TV. He received his master's degree in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh and has worked in nonprofit philanthropy for more than a decade. Luke was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he works for a biomedical research institute.

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