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I am a literary-horror author who flutters across genres as he pleases. Tis most fun. I have written a well received set of Fairytales, a slo-burn literary romance and a whole batch of crazy-deranged semi-autobiographical fiction. My Horror output receives the most reads. The most frequent comment in a review appears to be 'unique' and this makes me proud. Doesn't even mean they enjoyed the story but, unique, or at the very least, different, is something I strive to do with every moment of my life. It's the style I crave... My themes are often intricate and concerned with the individual at multiple levels of existential crisis. Not always, but often...I do not always write in the same genre because this does not appeal to where the ideas reside. I follow the idea and fly with the joy of that idea until its completion annoys the heck out of me. Leave it six months... then with a little perspective it usually gets finished. That's me, D.David Croot. I upload frequently. Look forward to being read. The reader’s opinion is exciting every time.
The Invisible Man : A young adult horror comedy tale for the peculiar looking kids
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Blurb: Ever just felt invisible?
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The invisible man... is the invisible boy... who meets the invisible girl... It's a modern reworking of the invisible man. It's a salvation tale for the kids who do not know how to live. It's a young adult tale written by an adult who dislikes pandering down to those who know more than he does. Enjoy!!!
The three kids who killed a Werewolf: Where the wild roses used to bloom... The inner Werewolf in all of us.
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Blurb: American Horror story for the written word!
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The three kids who killed a werewolf is a morality tale that shall plummet the depths of innocence, from school time to adulthood and explore the morale repercussions to a society at large. Literary influences include Richard Matheson, Kurt Vonnegut, Kobo Abe and Ryu Murakami.
Twenty-First Century Mankind Blues: SO YA WANNA BE A SERIAL KILLER...
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Blurb: What occurs when you adopt a persona from the start and then work backward?
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What occurs when you adopt a persona from the start and then work backward? When the world is revealed to you in reverse there can only be mayhem. A paean to detective novels, told with humour and the human condition at its heart. Trigger warning! Not for the faint hearted, must have the darkest sense of temperament.
Is it true, do Dreams come true?: a slow burn enemies to lovers satire!
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Blurb: how to become a woman of the world...
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How to become a woman of the world, part satirical, part long life lived...an exploration of the sexual side of life perhaps? Gretta Delouche has a family who are not bad people just neglectful. She is sent away and must find ways to endure her solitude at an all girls school. We see her sexual awakening and flirtations with the bohemian and decadent side of life. We pay witness to her love and inner monologues about how funny life can be...all written with D.David Croot's inimitable wit, panache and flair ridden style. Starts off with a comedic bang and ends with a solemn reflective note. Gretta is looking back on her life and in many ways, always dreaming... is it true, do dreams come true?
How to make a haunted house a home: A ghost story with an uncouth twist. (Horror comedy novella)
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Blurb: How do you make a haunted house a home?
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY for the printed word. How to make a haunted house a home is a ghost story with a literary twist. Told with grand doses of humour against the backdrop of real life implications for a family riddled with tension and nothing but headaches... Influences include: Richard Matheson, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Woody Allen and Arthur C. Clarke.
The island of the Dead, the Damned and the Doomed!: Love thy neighbour (Dastardly tales of modern day toilings! Book 7)
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Blurb: This morality tale is funny. Funny ha-ha and funny make ya brain twist n’whirl!
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It has a certain rhythm to its eccentricities that I dutifully believe some folks will find worthwhile! It goes places and stretches further the tightly knit bonds that hold most of my stories together. This could be to its benefit or detriment, hard to say… But its different Unique and always fairly original and… for me at least these are the prerequisites for bare minimum enjoyment when it comes to all available forms of creative endeavours. So what’s it about? Like all of my minor morality tales you’ll have to read on won’t ya now! Influenced by: Kobo Abe, Vonnegut, Ryu Murakami, Bruno Schulz, Herman Hesse and all the practical jokers of the world!
Cabin in the Woods: The Man, the Myth, the Fairytale...where true poetic loneliness lies.
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Blurb: Can you really, ever, truly live alone?
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Authors note This story is unusual. A rather long prose-poem if you will… It is not meant for the usual rabble of people. If you have a literary bent, stick with it, if you find people confusing then prepare to be enlightened with the story of: THE MYTH, THE MAN, THE FAIRYTALE! Man cannot be an island unto himself...but if he was, here's how it might go...
The man who needed to be exorcised...: (Doppelgänger blues!!!) Aka The emotional influenza.
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Blurb: For those who feel the world is fucked up!
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What happens when you combine Moliere's the misanthrope, Huysmans Against the Grain, Dostoevsky's bureaucratic nightmares and a whole heap of junk stored in the mind of a wayward writer hell bent on divine literary creativity? You get this bad mama-jumbo of a stream of conscious novella about a man who's superb at a job that only requires five minutes of work an eight hour day, see's doppelgängers who do not look like him everywhere and fails to look after a turtle. The jewel encrusted turtle being the only one he can have a joke with. Let's face it, we know he's gonna blow something up, time to guess what?
Fairytales, Folklore and Fantasy: Snow White, Red shoes and other tales reworked in a timeless fashion.
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Blurb: All your favourite childhood characters and tales reimagined!
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Preface These tales are not stories in the conventional sense. They are steeped in the quirky tradition of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm’s collected stories. I’ve used the framework of the fairytale to condense a novels ideas into a short story. Time and time again things are introduced and taken away and moved around and… The fairytale has a sweet and glorious pace all of its own. These fairytales are unique in their freshness and timeless and easy to read and full to the brim of all the magical things life can bring. There is death and sour endings and goodness and rewards and twists and unique spins on old friends we believe we knew all too well. Life is full of kookiness, drenched in unusual characters, invented or witnessed in real life. They are alive to me. I hope they shall live on for you also… Sincerely the author D. David Croot
Fairytales, Folklore and Fantasy Book 2: Where we meet Goldilocks, The Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and many more full of life characters.
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Blurb: Fairytales reimagined for a new generation of readers!
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Preface for Book 2 A continuation of Book 1's wondrous characters as well as numerous additions: Goldilocks and the three bears, The Pied Piper, The little Mermaid and many more surprises. Ten fascinating stories to ignite the imagination. If you're lucky we might even catch up with the storyteller and the ageing starlet Snow White! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These tales are not stories in the conventional sense. They are steeped in the quirky tradition of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm’s collected stories. I’ve used the framework of the fairytale to condense a novels ideas into a short story. Time and time again things are introduced and taken away and moved around and… The fairytale has a sweet and glorious pace all of its own. These fairytales are unique in their freshness and timeless and easy to read and full to the brim of all the magical things life can bring. There is death and sour endings and goodness and rewards and twists and unique spins on old friends, we believe we knew all too well. Life is full of kookiness, drenched in unusual characters, invented or witnessed in real life. They are alive to me. I hope they shall live on for you also… Sincerely the author D. David Croot
The oddballs
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Blurb: Have you ever felt weird? Too weird to fit into modern (or any period in time) life?
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Rest your weary head because I have created creatures that have taken on an uncouth life of their own. May I introduce Sir Daniel Fortesque the First and the miserly Quentin-Byron the forty-eighth. They live in a castle. Drink where they can. Eat where they must! And they cherish the night and somehow bring the townspeople together with their creative musings on living life and seizing what must be seized. They truly give the residents a tale for the ages.
Follow the Feeling: A literary odyssey for the troubled and middle aged.
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Blurb: Can you start again in the middle of middle age?
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What happens when your mother dies, you cannot relate to your kids and your wife is just the first lady to wave her pearly puppy dog eyes at you? You do as Dennis does! Romance and life begins when you disregard all that has gone on before. Written with the wit of Kurt Vonnegut, the heart of Knut Hamsun and Carson McCullers combined. Truly a modern incarnation of that blunted reality seeker Charles Bukowski. This is the romantic slice of life you all seek! Follow the feeling! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can you start again in the middle of middle age? "Course you fucking can" says Dennis as he leaves his wife, his job and his kids behind for a world anew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D. David Croot has been writing on and off (pretty much continually) for nineteen hundred years. He is no preternatural creature, no real special abilities or heightened desires to speak of, but he’s put in his four-trillion hours and it’s all for you my sweaty precious and sublimely beautiful creatures.
The story of the stone: Fairytales, folkore and fantasy!
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Blurb: A brilliant tale for all of time!
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Pretty preface Normally I would write a little longer of a preface, douse the prose in a little electricity to get things going and so on. However…this standalone triptych of a tale, three tales in all, concerns BIG things done in a playful way. The stories have plenty of room to speak for themselves. I just wanted to state clearly, if magic and wonder is what you are after, you need look no further than the Story of the stone. Many happy evenings and glad tidings to all who read on.
Loves unalterable Kiss:
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Blurb: From the depths of Baudelaire to the brilliance of a Byron in bloom we jump into the vapid rivers of a self reflective doomed and isolated soul, eager for an early suicide reminiscent of any romantic worth the drool he holds in his mouth.
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From the depths of Baudelaire to the brilliance of a Byron in bloom we jump into the vapid rivers of a self reflective doomed and isolated soul, eager for an early suicide reminiscent of any romantic worth the drool he holds in his mouth. NONE OF THAT INSTAGRAM CRAP NO TIC-TOC BULLSHIT IN Sight (well maybe a little) ( No limericks here). Lo and behold, slack jawed and in awe, contained within is the latest collection of the soon to be famous forever poet of all nations D. David Croot!
I am now dog
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Blurb: Ever just like felt like a dog
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I am now Dog I am now Dog is dedicated to my Dad and my brother. We are all bastards and get away with far too much in life. But life is pure and so are we. This is the reason I wrote I am now dog. It’s funny, hip and toys with the human condition as well as current socio-political events in a way that that, frankly, turns my literary head on. There is a debt of honour for Mikhail Bulgakov’s heart of the dog, which I felt, failed/meandered in many places. Such is life, such are other people’s stories the foundation for which I borrow and steal ever so zealously wherever I can. Do not fear for never will I fail to innovate and add in the new. Such is my want, such is my style.
The Box men!: Japanese literature for a European audience
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Blurb: There are people who live in boxes, don't ya know?
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The box men takes its influence from a peculiar novel of Kobo Abe’s, aptly titled The Box Man. The box men or Or how I learned to love the box, is an unusual type of modern day horror. It holds a mirror up to us, as well as society at large. It does not preach and is written in a rather disturbing manner. The manner mainly being satire and tiny jabs of humour that keep the story grooving. These people are unusual, disturbed but still they have to live on and learn and find ways to communicate with one another, no matter their curious difficulties. It is my humble honour to introduce the first box man who does not appear to know what a joke is…make of that what you will. ——————————————————————————————————————— These stories are openly based, much like Tales from the crypt or the twilight zone, upon other peoples work. They exist to be brief, entertain and maybe open a heart or two. It is an honour to be read and never shall I forget that Sincerely D.David Croot
The General Pointlessness of Being: So you wanna be a rebel!
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Blurb: So you wanna be a rebel? growing up is hard to do, yah?
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I wish this was a novel about being a tramp. I wish I could have witnessed the gulag, the concentration camps of any world war. It would have given myself such a unique point of view, a voice to stand above it all… but my upbringing staved off any lucky strike at a down and out skid-row experience....I was brought up normal, yet I turned out anything but... Thus starts the young adults journey through hell… A biography of sorts, a bildungsroman of uneven proportions! (THE BOREDOM TRILOGY can be read in any order) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written with the wit of Kurt Vonnegut, the heart of Knut Hamsun and Carson McCullers combined. Truly a modern incarnation of that blunted reality seeker Charles Bukowski. Herman Hesse could not have written this! Stephen King wishes he was this fiendish and Douglas Adams craved to be this funny! This is the devilish slice of life you all seek! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D. David Croot has been writing on and off (pretty much continually) for nineteen hundred years. He is no preternatural creature, no real special abilities or heightened desires to speak of, but he’s put in his four-trillion hours and it’s all for you my sweaty precious and sublimely beautiful creatures.