J.D. Barker (Author of The Fourth Monkey)

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J.D. Barker

老虎机稳赢方法 Author

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J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international best-selling author of numerous novels, including DRACUL and the wildly popular 4MK series. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries, and optioned for both film and television. Barker resides in coastal New Hampshire with his wife, Dayna, and their daughter, Ember.

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As a child I was always told the dark could not hurt me, that the shadows creeping in the corners of my room were nothing more than just that, shadows. The sounds nothing more than the settling of our old home, creaking as it found comfort in the earth only to move again when it became restless, if ever so slightly. J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international best-selling author of numerous novels, including DRACUL and the wildly popular 4MK series. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries, and optioned for both film and television. Barker resides in coastal New Hampshire with his wife, Dayna, and their daughter, Ember.

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As a child I was always told the dark could not hurt me, that the shadows creeping in the corners of my room were nothing more than just that, shadows. The sounds nothing more than the settling of our old home, creaking as it found comfort in the earth only to move again when it became restless, if ever so slightly. I would never sleep without closing the closet door, oh no; the door had to be shut tight. The darkness lurking inside needed to be held at bay, the whispers silenced. Rest would only come after I checked under the bed at least twice and quickly wrapped myself in the safety of the sheets (which no monster could penetrate), pulling them tight over my head.

I would never go down to the basement.

Never.

I had seen enough movies to know better, I had read enough stories to know what happens to little boys who wandered off into dark, dismal places alone. And there were stories, so many stories.

Reading was my sanctuary, a place where I could disappear for hours at a time, lost in the pages of a good book. It didn鈥檛 take long before I felt the urge to create my own.

I first began to write as a child, spinning tales of ghosts and gremlins, mystical places and people. For most of us, that鈥檚 where it begins鈥攁s children we have such wonderful imaginations, some of us have simply found it hard to grow up. I鈥檝e spent countless hours trying to explain to friends and family why I enjoy it, why I would rather lock myself in a quiet little room and put pen to paper for hours at a time than throw around a baseball or simply watch television. Don鈥檛 get me wrong, sometimes I want to do just that, sometimes I wish for it, but even then the need to write is always there in the back of my mind, the characters are impatiently tapping their feet, waiting their turn, wanting to be heard. I wake in the middle of the night and reach for the pad beside my bed, sometimes scrawling page after page of their words, their lives. Then they鈥檙e quiet, if only for a little while. To stop would mean madness, or even worse鈥攖he calm, numbing sanity I see in others as they slip through the day without purpose. They don鈥檛 know what it鈥檚 like, they don鈥檛 understand. Something as simple as a pencil can open the door to a new world, can create life or experience death. Writing can take you to places you鈥檝e never been, introduce you to people you鈥檝e never met, take you back to when you first saw those shadows in your room, when you first heard the sounds mumbling ever so softly from your closet, and it can show you what uttered them. It can scare the hell out of you, and that鈥檚 when you know it鈥檚 good.

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	The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 66,464 ratings — published 2017 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fifth to Die (4MK Thriller, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 33,962 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sixth Wicked Child (4MK Thriller, #3) 4.49 avg rating — 28,107 ratings — published 2019 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Caller's Game 4.11 avg rating — 8,280 ratings — published 2020 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind a Closed Door 3.95 avg rating — 5,113 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be 4.31 avg rating — 4,625 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forsaken (Shadow Cove Saga, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 2,240 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavy Are the Stones by J.D. Barker (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Christine Daigle (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) 3.94 avg rating — 532 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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J.D. Barker liked Neville Townsend's review of Something I Keep Upstairs: "Billy's friend Spivey inherit's an island off the coast of New England. There are rules to live or stay there. Full of menace, this is an excellent haunted house/island novel that grips you. Good characters that some you root for. Well written and to" Read more of this review 禄
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J.D. Barker liked April Blackard's review of Something I Keep Upstairs: "Suspenseful, shocking and enthralling are just a few ways to describe this story.. I was listening to this audiobook, however I feel like even if I was reading a hard copy it would still affect me the same way. I had to stop a few times to let my anx" Read more of this review 禄
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J.D. Barker liked Susan Hamann's review of Something I Keep Upstairs: "A real horror/ghost story. Spivey, about to turn 18, has lead a troubled life. It may be about to change when a grandmother that he'd only met once, at a Thanksgiving dinner 10 years before, dies suddenly. It turns out that she's left him (and defini" Read more of this review 禄
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J.D. Barker and 2 other people liked Laura Wonderchick's review of Something I Keep Upstairs: "Do yourself a favor and read this one on a dark and stormy night. You probably won鈥檛 sleep but it鈥檚 the perfect setting to read it! This in a way reminded me of early Stephen King, before he added politics into his stories and they were just great ch" Read more of this review 禄
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“Books are like puppies, they wait for you with unconditional love and welcome you back whenever you return.”
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“Sometimes the most frightening of thoughts can be found hiding among the shadows of our own minds.”
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“Sometimes the most frightening of thoughts can be found hiding among the shadows of our own minds.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

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“Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

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“Writing can take you to places you鈥檝e never been, introduce you to people you鈥檝e never met, take you back to when you first saw those shadows in your room, when you first heard the sounds mumbling ever so softly from your closet, and it can show you what uttered them. It can scare the hell out of you, and that鈥檚 when you know it鈥檚 good.”
― J.D. Barker

tags: writing

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“Books are like puppies, they wait for you with unconditional love and welcome you back whenever you return.”
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“We're going to have such fun, you and I.”
― J.D. Barker, The Fourth Monkey

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