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It was Easter Monday, 1952. It was a day like any other. The slat truck rolled into camp with half a dozen new convicts. I counted a couple of vagrants, one drunk, one assaulter and one assaultee.
All of that and Olan Walker.
Olan Walker was the first man out of the slat truck and the way he was built he could have slid through one of the slats. That man was nothing but lank. He was as lean as a dog in Lent. He was as lean as hunger poured thinner...
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Here are six new stories to SERIOUSLY creep you out!
The Hunter's Heart - a dark retelling of the Snow White legend, told from the hunter's point of view.
The Other Side Of The Moon Is A Lonely Midnight Shadow - an eerie werewolf tale, set in a strange steampunk kind of wilderness.
The Bridge - in a post-apocalyptic wasteland the last motorcyclist meets a very strange obstacle.
Something In The Pine Resin - she was only a ship's figurehead, wasn't...
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Hace mucho, muchísimo, mucho multiplicado por cien más la longitud de un hipopótamo, muchisísimo tiempo, un chico se sentó a solas a las afueras de la leñera de su familia, y se puso a dibujar gatos. El chico esperaba que le castigaran por dibujar gatos y sabía, en su interior, que no debería dibujar más. Pero, en realidad, no se le ocurría otra forma de pasar el rato.
Dibujó gatos felices. Dibujó gatos tristes. Dibujó gatos que no se...
105) Sea Tales
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Let's face it.
About seventy-five percent of the world is covered in water, and of that water nearly ninety-seven percent of it can be found in the sea. Maritimers will tell you that there is a story for every wave that has ever washed upon the shoreline.
Here are seven of them.
"In the Dark and the Deep" offers a very haunting yarn of World War 2 convoy duty and a sailor who made and kept a terrible bargain.
"Harry's Mermaid" introduces you to...
106) Devil Tree
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The roots of evil run far deeper than you can ever imagine in this full length haunting historical-horror novel.
Lucas Sawyer and his wife Tamsen find themselves marooned in the heart of a mid-nineteenth century wilderness forest. They are rescued by Jonah Duvall, a mysterious woodsman abiding in this strange valley with his wife Jezebel and their son Cord. Brooding over all of this stands the Devil Tree - a huge and evil jack-pine that has summoned...
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When Mr. Freeze creates a machine that gives him the power to control storms, it's up to Batman, Superman, and the rest of the Super Friends to put a stop to the weather-wielding foe! Neither snow nor rain nor villain's might will stop the DC Super Friends from getting the job done! This DC Super Friends Little Golden Book is a must-have for boys ages 2 to 5!
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It was Billy McTavish's first sea voyage.
He had signed on to the serve as convoy escort on the THISTLE a Royal Canadian Navy corvette. Through U-Boat attack and Luftwaffe bombing runs, Billy had thought he had seen all of the horror that the Atlantic could offer a young Canadian sailor. But, Big Jimmy Noonan had other ideas...
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A special collection of three Steve Vernon releases:Long Horn, Big ShaggyRoadside GhostsTwo Fisted NastyCollected now in a single set and see why horror-master Edward Lee said, "This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." "If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the...
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Detours are amazing creatures.
A detour can shortcut your existence or it can lead you down a forever, long road that will linger far into the distant reaches of eternity. It is these unexpected tangents that people stumble across nearly every day that will haunt you in a frighteningly familiar fashion.
Wander into a laundromat and find a kind of a time machine. Indulge yourself in a particularly nasty game of baseball. Hitch a ride on a freight...
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Scary tales from Nova Scotia, by the author of The Tatterdemon Omnibus and Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia's Spookiest Places.
This is a collection of ghost stories from Nova Scotia-from the restless spirits of Devil's Island to the Black Dog of Antigonish Harbor. Documented and well-known stories from the provincial archives are mixed with word-of-mouth legends of strange happenings and scary sightings from across the province. Author...
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