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Dean Lappi
Author of horror, thriller, and fantasy novels 

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Dean Lappi is the author of five novels and counting.

 

His latest release is DEEPSTONE - A Safewell Mission: Book One. It was released on August 2, 2025, and is available on Amazon in Hardcover, Paperback, Audible, Kindle, and KindleUnlimited.

DEEPSTONE brings you 4000 feet down into an iron ore mine in far northern Minnesota where not even your worst nightmares can prepare you for the EVIL that rises from the darkness.

Dean was born and raised in northern Minnesota and he specializes in adding horror elements to other genres, like thrillers and fantasy, to give his stories an eerie and ominous undertone.

 

Dean enjoys engaging with readers and a lively community of horror lovers and literary aficionados. He often attends conventions where he sells autographed books and meets amazing people.

 

Check out Dean's books on Amazon.com.

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DEEPSTONE - A SAFEWELL MISSION: Book One

Not even your worst nightmares can prepare you for the EVIL that rises from the darkness 4000 feet underground.

 

DEEPSTONE, the deepest underground iron ore mine in the United States, has been a popular tourist destination for decades.

 

Tour Guide John Lukkinen leads a small group down to Level 32 on the final tour of the day. But things do not go as planned when blasting from a new open-pit mine knocks the power out, trapping them thousands of feet beneath the surface.

 

And they are not alone.

 

A nearly indestructible creature from a world 46,000 feet below the mine hunts John and the tourists as they try to find their way through each dark and unused level.

 

Two well-equipped military teams are sent into the mine. One team is sent to kill everyone, the other to rescue them.

 

Can everyone escape the mine alive?

 

Read the horror thriller DEEPSTONE today!

BLACK NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book one

In a land where real magic is nothing but myth, Sid is something special, for his awakened sexuality and genius-level mastery of advanced mathematics combines to create a power beyond anything before seen in the world.

 

Sid must elude a dangerous and seductive creature called the Korpor who hunts him relentlessly for his power of numbers.

Sid’s journey propels him to the center of a 1000-year-struggle between the forces of good and evil, with an outcome obscured by the darkness known as Black Numbers.

 

Sid must learn to control the chaotic and darkly sexual powers growing within him before it is too late.

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BLOOD NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book Two

Sid's power of Black Numbers have awakened, but he cannot yet manipulate those numbers. He journeys with his friends Crowdal, Melinda, Mrs. Wessmank, Maelon and Writhgarth to a faraway land that may hold the key to his powers.

 

Along the way he meets a powerful woman who awakens his first feelings of true love, but who may also be the one destined to destroy him.

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BROKEN NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book Three

Trith, Circle, Zranh, Raith, Death


With those enigmatic words from the Black Manuscript, Sid begins his journey to the Trith Nation where he hopes to find clues to help him regain his power of Numbers.

 

He is joined by Crowdal, who agrees to take Sid and his friends back to his home, a place he does not want to go.

 

But to get there they must travel through the dangerous and unexplored lands of the north where there are things that are better left undisturbed.

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BEYOND NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book Four

Beyond Numbers, the conclusion to the Aleph Null Chronicles.

 

Follow this final epic journey to the farthest reaches of the Land where strange, horror-filled, and wondrous things await.

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