Andrey Dashkov (; born Andrey Georgievich Dashkov, ; 28 January 1965) is a contemporary

horror fiction Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defin ...

writer which resides in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

, Ukraine, and writes in Russian. Genre of Dashkov's first novels may be defined as

dark fantasy Dark fantasy, also called fantasy horror, is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror fiction, horror ...

. His last novels and short stories usually carry the outward conventions of the

genre, but include elements of

dystopia A dystopia (lit. "bad place") is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place (possibly state) in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmen ...

and

mysticism Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute (philosophy), Absolute, but may refer to any kind of Religious ecstasy, ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or Spirituality, spiritual meani ...

Andrey Dashkov bio

Andrey Georgievich Dashkov (''Андрей Георгиевич Дашков'') was born 28 January 1965, in Kharkiv,

Soviet Ukraine The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. Under the Soviet one-party m ...

. He graduated from

Kharkiv Aviation Institute Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

(1988). After the service in the

Soviet Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republi ...

(1988–1990) he worked at a research institute. Dashkov published his first

novel ''The Apostate'' in 1993, thus beginning his career as a professional writer. Since 2006 he is engaged exclusively in the literature.

Bibliography

Novels * 1993 The Apostate () * 1994 Hell Star () * 1995 Viperling () * 1996 The Disfigured () * 1996 The Deceived () * 1996 The Servant of Werewolves () * 1996 Die Or Disappear! () * 1997 Necromancers Wars () * 1997 Paranoia Doors () * 1998 The Pale Horseman, Black Jack () * 1999 Lost Light () * 2000 Hurricane Eye () * 2001 The Collector of Bones () * 2001 Superanimal () * 2003 The Dragon () * 2010 Lazarus, or Journey of Destined To Die (Russian: "Лазарь, или Путешествие смертника")(audiobook) * 2011 Figment of imagination (Russian: "Плод воображения") * 2012 Midnight Sun. New Era (Russian: "Солнце полуночи. Новая эра") * 2012 Wandering Of Senor (Russian: "Странствие Сенора")

External links

Andrey Dashkov Official Website.

Andrey Dashkov books from Amazon.

Andrey Dashkov fan club (Russian).
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