'The demon offspring of Stephen King's The Shining and Hitchcock's Psycho.' — Michael Grant, the Gone series. 'Daniel Kraus writes raw and deft and dangerous. Consider yourself warned.' - ADELE GRIFFIN, two-time National Book Award finalist Preorder Scowler from Amazon Order Scowler from IndieBound
Grueling, demented, & so crammed with noxious awesomeness that I had to read it twice. - SCOTT WESTERFELD, Leviathan and Uglies. A strongly written tale of adolescence, grave robbing, and the mysteries of death, ROTTERS is uncompromising, dark, and true. - GUILLERMO DEL TORO & CHUCK HOGAN, The Strain Trilogy. Order Rotters from Amazon Order Rotters from IndieBound
Utterly unique from the very first line. - Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End.  Beneath the terror and the thrills, there is *truth* in this haunting tale.  It pierced my heart straight through. - Lauren Myracle, ttyl and Bliss

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5/18/13

Guys Lit Wire: "A searing portrayal of evil. Highly recommended."

5/8/13

DK answers 5 Qs for the International Reading Association.

4/22/13

DK joins author Barry Lyga for "Masters of the Macabre" discussion @ at New York Public Library.

4/19/13

USA Today: Scowler author on his favorite villians in lit.

4/14/13

School Library Journal: "Tense, dark, and creepy. A perfect choice for mature horror readers."

4/12/13

SLJ's Liz Burns: "Beautiful and horrible and terrible."

4/11/13

Read the short story (written in 8th grade!) that inspired Scowler!

4/4/

Random House Audio: Listen with the Lights On: Video & Sound from DK's audio books!

4/3/13

Imaginary Reads: "Bloody, frightful, and shocking, filled with tension."

4/2/13

Bibliosaurus Text: "Readers with the stomach for the darkest spaces of the human psyche will love Scowler. I can’t wait to see what nightmare Kraus dreams up next."

3/27/13

The Bulletin: "Connoisseurs of the grotesque have come to the right place, as Kraus' impeccable sense of thriller timing spins out the terror."

3/20/13

Rue Morgue: "It's dark, poetic, and challenging. It wields the heavy hand of choking dread and human-on-human horror."

3/18/13

DK gets into the origins of Scowler with Dear Teen Me.

3/16/13

The Chicago Tribune talks to DK about Scowler.

3/15/13

Booklist interviews DK.

3/12/13

Boing Boing: "Kraus's masterful raising-of-stakes makes this the sort of disaster you can't possibly look away from."

3/12/13

Stacked: "This is one of the most memorable books I've read in a long time."

3/12/13

Bookshelves of Doom: "Highly recommended. Like a trip into (and then out of) hell."

3/7/13

Bloody Disgusting: "Scowler redefines YA horror...Kraus has virtually unlimited potential."

1/22/13

Publishers Weekly on Scowler: "A memorably brutal assault on the senses, not for the fainthearted or delicate."

12/13/12

Scowler is a Junior Library Guild selection.

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