Nicholas Crawford

Nicholas Crawford is an author and philosopher who pursues death drive and its undead correlates. He studied English at Vassar College and completed his master’s degree at the University of Virginia. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.

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Where We've Made It Dark

An impossible coming of age with nothing left to come of age to

Imogen starts summer vacation to find her brother watching zombies on the news. Quips fly, but the catastrophe in Indonesia still rips the future from anything she loves. The world ends before undead reach her door, and what Imogen faces is unthinkable: to leave her family in the apocalypse.

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