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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer

@michaelpatrickhicks.com
2.3K followers 1.2K following 7.2K posts

Author of IN THE END, NOTHING; FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE; MASS HYSTERIA. Book reviewer, movie hoarder. He/Him. Reviewer at FanFiAddict.com. Fuck AI. Fuck Trump. Website: www.michaelpatrickhicks.com Books: books2read.com/michaelpatrickhicks

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 29/09/2026
Earlier this month, I decided I needed a new hobby. Naturally, this led me down the dark road of furthering my burgeoning Warhammer obsession. I feel like I’ve learned a lot over the last few weeks. Here’s to more building and painting for many more weeks to come! 🎨 🖌️ 🔨
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 13/09/2026
Random bounty hunter showing up on the scene with a big hat that he loves so much his ship is designed to look just like it. Now he fly around space in a really big hat while wearing a really big hat. It’s funny.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 07/09/2026
My very first miniature has been painted! Next step is ordering a bright lamp with a built-in magnifying glass since I didn’t see some of these mistakes until I was zoomed in with my phone’s macro setting…
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/09/2026
Already broke the little base peg off one, too. Off to a real good start here. Cool cool cool.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/09/2026
Welllll…. I guess I’m doing this. Tomorrow. Once the primer has set and dried…
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 27/08/2026
The spammy AI written emails were bad enough, but now these motherfuckers are going to start TEXT MESSAGING me?! There is no hell these people can burn in fast enough.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton. Tim Curry. And, now, Optimus Prime himself, Peter Cullen. For fuck’s sake, Death…
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 17/08/2026
Adrian Bott tweeted on, Oct 16, 2015, "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party."
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/08/2026
A recent REVOLVER reader said "the America Hicks builds—a dialed-up, nightmarish version of the current —is worth the price alone." That price is only 99c for Kindle! Check out the story that "aims at the world we live in and blows its head off" in ebook and audio at mybook.to/revolver
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 07/08/2026
Thanks Gabino! MASS HYSTERIA has been enjoying a pretty steady readership since returning to Kindle Unlimited. I'd love to see that keep going and maybe get some fresh reviews! Find out why horror readers say this one's all bite, no bark. mybook.to/MassHysteria
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/08/2026
Currently reading: an advance copy of THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT. "We can see INTERVIEW [WITH A VAMPIRE] next week." Gotta say, I am absolutely in love with the cosmic coincidence that in reality, INTERVIEW makes its 4K debut one week after this book's official street date.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 05/08/2026
Just got NetGalley approval for my first John Gwynne book. I hear this guy's pretty OK! I'm excited to read it, but unsure if it's going to be my next read, or one of the forthcoming Hailey Piper books, or a supposedly sexy rom-com with zombies (but not, like, *with* zombies, you know?) Decisions! 🤔
Cover art for THE WOLVES OF WAR by John Gwynne.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 04/08/2026
MASS HYSTERIA has been enjoying a pretty steady readership since returning to Kindle Unlimited. Find out why horror readers say this one's all bite, no bark. mybook.to/MassHysteria
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 01/08/2026
Well, I guess author Jack Stewart did not like my review of his upcoming Tom Clancy book, PRESSURE DEPTH. Oh deal, however will I go on? www.michaelpatrickhicks.com/blog/tom-cla...
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 26/07/2026
I’m gonna have to catch up on some Ghost Rider comics before 2028. Good thing there’s a @benjaminpercy.bsky.social omnibus coming out in October!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 10/07/2026
My god, this is utterly dystopian. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...
Highlighted text reads "most white-collar jobs will soon involve giving feedback to A.I. models. Taken to its logical conclusion, this is a vision of work in which even high-level employees systematically automate nearly every task they perform, until all that is left for them to do is train A.I."
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 30/06/2026
This can go right ahead and fuck ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the way off.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 16/06/2026
This is a banger of a line, though.
In writing about David Ellison's ties to Donald Trump, writer Brent Lang notes that Sean Penn, "who has called Trump “an enemy of mankind,” is of a different political persuasion."
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 16/06/2026
I memed a thing.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 16/06/2026
Just getting started on my ARC of @cgolden.bsky.social’s CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/06/2026
Birthday and Father’s Day gift cards from my MIL means movies have been bought. Hurray!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 22/05/2026
I’m pretty happy with my last four! Had me some good viewings.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 15/05/2026
Thanks, Gabino! After the recent Draft2Digital kerfluffle, I find myself having to return to Kindle Unlimited. Horror fans can find all my books available to read there once again! Go check 'em out at author.to/MichaelPatri.... 🍻
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 15/05/2026
Name your fav film that flopped.
Movie poster for John Carpenter’s THE THING by Drew Struzan.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 10/05/2026
Spent a productive morning in the kitchen making my wife a Mother’s Day breakfast. Eggs and potato bowl, and a cinnamon apple Dutch baby. Came out pretty good, if I do say so myself.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 04/05/2026
May the Fourth be with you! Engage!
It’s May 4 — STAR WARS Day — and I’m digging to Dayton Ward’s latest Star Trek: Picard book, TO DEFY FATE, as shown here in my pale-ass hand.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 28/04/2026
A reddit poster shared this synopsis from DC's Infinite Universe which... actually gives you some information on the book? Amazing! Compare and contrast. Can you tell which one is seemingly written by a human being and which is allegedly written by AI? 🤔
Meanwhile, DC Universe Infinite's description -

"Set during the early years of Batman’s career, Batman: Dark Patterns delves into four mysterious cases as he attempts to cement his place as Gotham City’s protector while the city itself fights back against him. This is the Dark Knight Detective at his most stripped-down core, a man relying on his wits, his skills, and little else as he tackles some of the most twisted mysteries Gotham City and its protector have ever encountered."
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 27/04/2026
Since I don't make enough money annually to pay the Draft2Digital sales fine, the great delisting of all my titles on non-Amazon storefronts has begun! Looks like I'll be going back to Kindle Unlimited once all the various shops have updated accordingly. So long, @draft2digital.bsky.social!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 25/04/2026
Very happy to bring home copies of Monika Kim’s THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART and @buehlmeister.bsky.social’s BETWEEN TWO FIRES this #IndieBookStoreDay. Plus, sprayed edges FTW!!!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 15/04/2026
One of the things I most enjoy about Absolute Batman is the simple fact that I never really know what to expect from issue to issue, except that it's going to take what we know from the traditional Bat-line, punch it in the face, and make it stand on its head in admirably horrific ways.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 15/04/2026
I guess the question now is, do I delete my account immediately or hold out and hope @draft2digital.bsky.social reverses this asinine decision to charge authors like me, who makes <$100/year through non-Amazon sales channels and libraries, before they start taking more money away from me.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 15/04/2026
I don’t even make $12/year on the non-Amazon sales channels.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/04/2026
Image of Paddington Bear with the quote, "Get a new president," as said by Snake Plissken in Escape From New York
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 11/04/2026
Been catching up on the last couple episodes of season two of Daredevil: Born Again. This show is, by far, the best stuff Marvel has put out in a while, IMO. Incredibly topical, relevant, and really captures the Marvel ethos of “the world outside your window” from the comics of yesteryear.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/04/2026
All right, gang, I’m going in!
Cover art for EAT YOUR HEART OUT by N.J. Gallegos, as shown on my iPad Kindle app.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/04/2026
"Harry Hole, Detective"
Dan Ankroyd portraying a fictional character named Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute in Saturday Night Live way back when.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 06/04/2026
New arrival: THE LAST FREAKSHOW by @thelastfreakshow.bsky.social. Hoping I can dive into this one soon! And many thanks to E for the signed copy and the kind words about my short story, REVOLVER. ✌️
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 04/04/2026
Oh hell yeah!!! Thank you, @sweetshop.app!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 01/04/2026
On the bright side, I also discovered I've been added to another dipshit's anti-AI list! So, YAY! for that! FUCK AI!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 01/04/2026
Helen blocked me for having the temerity of correcting her. Oh well. Here's the original post for posterity's sake.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 28/03/2026
Fun story. Critical Drinker did a guest star in one of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books before his political views became known. Now that he’s outed himself as a RWNJ, the author, Matt Dinniman, regrets Drinker’s role in the books and wants to have him removed and his scenes redone.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 25/03/2026
Star Trek: The Last Starship #6. Another great issue is a consistently great series. This one marks the end of Chapter Two as the Babel Conference draws an end with a decisive vote regarding the future of the Federation and consequential actions made by the crew of Omega, Kirk most especially.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 24/03/2026
While Audible currently still allows users at a higher subscription keep their Audible purchases even if they cancel, this new, cheaper plan feels like a canary in a coal mine. Keep your purchases for "as long as your a member." I think they'll be locking everyone into this type of plan soon enough.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 23/03/2026
Today’s welcome discovery: Crown Royal Chocolate Whisky.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 19/03/2026
Not sure if she’s cold, hiding, or both
Kitty is burrowed under the sheets and blanket of our bed.
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/03/2026
Cannot stop playing Marathon…
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/03/2026
Happy release day!
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/03/2026
Not sure if/when I’m gonna regret this, but I’m back on Instagram if y’all want to follow me over there. www.instagram.com/mphicks79
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/03/2026
I haven’t seen THE SUBSTITUTE in forever, but have been looking forward to it getting a good UHD release. Looks like it’s finally on the way! I hope it holds up…
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 12/03/2026
FYI @douglas-wynne.bsky.social - @toddkeisling.com's helpful marketing worked. 😁 Tagging in @charshorror.bsky.social, since I recall her digging Douglas's work previously. 🍻
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