Award-winning author of 32 books, including First Blood, which introduced the world to Rambo. 18 million copies in print translated into 30 languages.
Joined October 2011
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Jun 12
BEFORE I WAKE, my 3rd short-story collection, has 14 stories. Three feature the hero of my PROTECTOR series. Others feature classic mystery figures such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I wrote an intro to each. The collector’s ed sold out, but it’s available as an e-book & audio book.
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Jun 12
My short story “The Corpse Collector” will be published in THE YEAR’S BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE, edited by Megan Abbott and Steph Cha. Here’s the cover reveal and a link to pre-order the anthology, which will be published in October.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-bes…
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Jun 11
“Crack this novel and it’s like an alien abduction of your brain—forget resuming your normal life until it’s finished.” —Douglas Preston
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Jun 11
Books can change the world. See how many of these impactful works you can identify in this Lit Trivia Quiz from the NY Times.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Jun 10
Discover the history of one of England’s most famous literary dwellings, Dove Cottage. It’s a location in RULER OF THE NIGHT, the final novel in my Victorian mystery/thriller series. I had fun creating photo essays for this & other locations in the series.
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My Victorian mystery/thriller series begins with MURDER AS A FINE ART, in which gaslit London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a demented murderer. Lots of little-known, weird details about Victorian London.
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We bought this amaryllis plant before Christmas. Typically, they’re sealed in wax and eventually die, but the wax can be peeled off. In soil, it’s now 18″ tall and thriving.
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Fascinating that a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton remained hidden until now. “The Men Who Saved the World,” about a dinner party in a French chateau as World War I winds down, was just published by The Strand.
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The new deluxe 5-film Rambo 4K set includes both versions of IV and V. Sly’s director’s cut of IV is excellent. The reviewer agrees with me that the 5th movie is terrible. My audio commentary for FIRST BLOOD is included.
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A deluxe 5-film Rambo 4K set has been released. Here’s a link. The reviewer says nice things about my novel FIRST BLOOD and agrees that RAMBO V isn’t really a Rambo film.
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I like this photo of me and Sylvester Stallone on the set of RAMBO III in Israel so much that I use it as my business card.
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The short answer to why I wrote FIRST BLOOD: as a Penn State student, during anti-war riots, I met students returning from Vietnam w/PTSD. I decided to write a novel about a returning Vietnam veteran who brings the war to America. My website has more info.
davidmorrell.net/rambo/
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Directors of the hot new horror movies BACKROOMS & OBSESSION are in their 20s & have YouTube backgrounds. Hollywood observers wonder about an industry shift comparable to therise of '90s directors (David Fincher among them) who had music-video experience.
variety.com/2026/film/column…
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My short story “The Corpse Collector” will be published in THE YEAR’S BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE, edited by Megan Abbott and Steph Cha. Here’s the cover reveal and a link to pre-order the anthology, which will be published in October.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-bes…
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“Morrell brings England to vibrant life, his characters feel so incredibly real, and you keep guessing at the killer’s identity but keep guessing wrong... Agatha Christie, eat your heart out.”
— Acclaimed Western novelist, Johnny D. Boggs
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Deadline takes a hard look at where A.I. currently stands in Hollywood, reviewing “A.I. on the Lot,” a conference that started in 2023 with 600 attendees and has grown to a two-day event in 2026, with some 2,500 attendees on Amazon’s Culver City lot.
deadline.com/2026/05/hollywo…
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I love music as much as I love movies and books. The 20 essays in my collection, STARS IN MY EYES: My Love Affair with Books, Movies, And Music, include profiles of Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle, and Bobby Darin. Available as an e-book and audio book.
davidmorrell.net/books/stars…
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I’m a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim so his new biography, STEPHEN SONDHEIM: Art Isn’t Easy, by Daniel Okrent, is on my summer reading list. “The book is brimming with delicious incident,” writes Emma Brockes in this rave review for The Guardian.
theguardian.com/books/2026/m…
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My spy thriller BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE is filled w/authentic CIA history & tradecraft. I based the mysterious man Eliot on real CIA counter-espionage master James Jesus Angleton—a friend of Kim Philby (of the notorious Cambridge Five) and later his enemy.
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Antonia Senior’s new book, STALIN’S APOSTLES: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire, explores the double agents who passed British secrets to the Soviets, betraying their country from the 1930s through the Cold War’s early years.
nytimes.com/2026/05/27/books…
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