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Justin Phillip Reed is an American writer and amateur bass guitarist. His preoccupations include horror cinema, ideological failure, and uses of the grotesque. He is author of the hybrid text, With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany, released on Halloween 2023, as well as two poetry collections, The Malevolent Volume (2020) and Indecency (2018)—all published by Coffee House Press. Born and raised in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, he participates in alternative rock music cultures, ogles Toyota Tacomas, and enjoys smelling like outside. He writes for the Nu Metal Agenda, and his favorite band is Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile.