Max Booth III (born July 4, 1993) is an American author, screenwriter, and publisher best known for his work in the horror field. His nonfiction writing has appeared in LitReactor, CrimeReads, the

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, and Film-14. His novella ''We Need to Do Something'' is the basis for a film of the same name shot in secret during the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic. Booth also co-owns and operates Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, an independent publishing house, with his wife, Lori Michelle, and serves as the managing editor of ''Dark Moon Digest'', a horror fiction quarterly.

Early life

Booth was born July 4th, 1993 in

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. He began writing at the age of seven as a way to cope with the death of his dog. Prior to being published, he was active on Storiesville.com, a website for aspiring writers to post their work and receive feedback; after the site became defunct, Booth began promoting his writing elsewhere, eventually publishing his first novel, ''Toxicity,'' in 2014.

Career

Following his first novel, Booth published three books between 2014 and 2016. Concurrently he founded the independent press Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing with then-girlfriend (later wife) Michelle. Booth also became the managing editor of ''Dark Moon Digest'', a horror digest, for which Michelle serves as the editor-in-chief. In 2019, Booth published his fifth novel, ''Carnivorous Lunar Activities,''

's third book under their FANGORIA Presents imprint. In 2020, he published ''We Need to Do Something'', the basis for the film of the same name, which was filmed in secret during the

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. The same year, his novel ''Touch the Night'' was published by Cemetery Dance.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Toxicity'' (2014) * ''The Mind is a Razorblade'' (2014) * ''How to Successfully Kidnap Strangers'' (2015) * ''The Nightly Disease'' (2016) * ''Carnivorous Lunar Activities'' (2019) * ''Touch the Night'' (2020) * ''Maggots Screaming!'' (2022)

Novellas

* ''Black'' (2013) * ''We Need to Do Something'' (2020)

Story Collections

* ''True Stories Told By a Liar'' (2012) * ''They Might Be Demons'' (2013) * ''Abnormal Statistics'' (2023)

Anthologies (as editor)

* ''Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories'' (2012) * ''Zombies Need Love, Too'' (2013) * ''So it Goes: a Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut'' (2013) * ''Long Distance Drunks: a Tribute to Charles Bukowski'' (2014) * ''Truth or Dare?'' (2014) * ''Lost Signals'' (2016) * ''Lost Films'' (2018) * ''Tales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror'' (2019) * ''Lost Contact'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Booth, Max III Living people 21st-century American novelists 1993 births American horror novelists Novelists from Indiana Writers from Indiana 21st-century American male writers