Kevin Bauer
@kevin0bauer
Writer & screenwriter, lover of books, comics, video games, and movies. BIG Ghost Rider fan 💀🔥 He/Him
WHO AM I? I’m a SFF and horror guy, and I’ve been on sub before for my adult horror novel, Undertow, which is THE THING meets DEADLIEST CATCH. Editors told my former agent that my style was very cinematic, and my book read like a movie!
I’M SEEKING LITERARY REPRESENTATION! On what? Right now I’m querying my adult horror novel, The Conversion. In it, a modern family struggles to renovate an abandoned Catholic orphanage. When they discover that it’s haunted, they find that the exorcism might be even worse…
THE EVIL WITHIN 2 breaks my heart. Not because it’s bad; it’s the closest thing to an open world Resident Evil 4 with Silent Hill’s monster design and the Matrix’s worldbuilding. It’s because it’s so obscure and its parent company dissolved. Legally, it’s almost impossible for there to be sequel 😭
Book 17 of 2026: All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy. A challenging read with alternatively sparse or purple prose, laconic or expository characters, and plot-driven events. Themes of culture shock and deconstructing romanticism, but they require heavy interpretation. Respect it; didn’t love it
Book 16 or 2026: Shadow Rider: Blood Sky at Morning, Jory Sherman. This was the first western I ever read, and it was a purple, pulpy mood piece that was as exciting and immersive as it felt like a well-trod formula. Shame the book is only half the narrative.
Book 15 of 2026: Resident Evil: Code Veronica, S.D. Perry A revisionist and streamlined take on the most fiddly and challenging RE games, it makes Steve more palatable, the environs more navigable, and most of the setpieces more reasonable in size. It also skips a lot, including Chris vs. Wesker.
Ngl, I think it’s kinda lame that AVGENGERS: DOOMSDAY isn’t using the Fox X-Men team from X2, but a glorified hypothetical version of them. Don’t pander to empty nostalgia! Show us the team as they looked! Remind that they all looked and sounded generic apart from Wolverine, Prof X, and Magneto!
Book 14 of 2026: The Poisoned City by Anna Clark. A gripping, harrowing, and enraging investigation of the Flint Water Crisis, what caused it, what exacerbated it, how it was “resolved,” and what effects remain. Supposedly the water is fine now, but I can’t imagine a resident ever trusting it again
Book 13 of 2026: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo A rollicking dieselpunk fantasy adventure blending The Lies of Locke Lamora and Oceans 11. Violent and suggestive af, I can’t believe this is considered YA. Didn’t believe any of the characters were teens, but I believed *in them* and loved the read.
Book 12 of 2026, God’s Junk Drawer, by @peterclines.com I’d loved Ex-Heroes, so was excited for this. A breezy read that investigates a Lost World setting with Crichton-like astrophysics to explore themes of grief, the impact of pop culture, and the challenges of perspectives changing with age.
Fire Emblem would be bigger than Final Fantasy Tactics and literally every other tactics game if it wasn’t Nintendo-locked. The Internet would never stop gushing about it.
Book 11 of 2026, Myths Reborn: Modern Tales of Cryptids & Folklore. A haunting collection of cryptid horror fiction often involving savage kills and lingering grief. Also, I got published in this one! Check out my short story, “Melon Heads!” www.amazon.com/dp/B0G7XKCDBD
Book 10 of 2026, Brian Jacques. A fun, cozy read, it’s richly described, charming as all get-out, and way more violent than expected. A nice reminder that good will eventually triumph over evil.
Finished book 8 of 2016: Star Wars: Dark Force Rising, by Timothy Zahn. Fascinating to see what Star Wars used to be prior to the Prequels. Looking forward to seeing more of Mara Jade & Thrawn in future installments. Weird seeing Star Wars written with the pace & factions of Game of Thrones.
Finished book seven of 2026: The Mystery of the Pale King, by Sam Flynn. A dark, investigative horror odyssey and coming of age epic exploring frustrations with organized religion, equally iffy alternatives, parentage, and the hard choices we make navigating all of them. Read like a gothic horror!
In this house, we acknowledge one true king. See also that FF Galactus clip. [inserts long rant about the various Ghost Riders, their relative power levels, how irrelevant power-scaling is in storytelling, but favorite character, goddammit]
Finished book 6 of 2026, Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman, which was like if McCarthy’s The Road was written about the Black Plague in France. I’m hard to scare, and this book did so twice in its uncomfortable odyssey of sin, misery, hope, and redemption. Extremely good, dark stuff.
If you see this post, quote with your favorite Pokemon! Not-Baragon will always be my Baragon.
I’m a couple drinks in, and for whatever reason, I’m OBSESSED with Deathlok, a character I’ve never read but am somehow convinced is the next big thing
Oh no, I looked at this image and now I’m interested in Star Wars again.
2026 Book #5 - Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy, by S.D Perry Hadn’t read this since middle school, but I love Perry’s prose and additions to the characters and lore. It’s striking just how much the games have abandoned all the major arcs they seeded. Lol remember Umbrella’s European branch?