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“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.”

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Hal Duncan, born on October 21, 1971, is a renowned fiction writer from Scotland. His works are known for their unique literary style and rich imagination, which have won him a dedicated readership. more

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