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Ocurrió ayer o quizás el día anterior. Arrojaron bombas. Nadie supo por qué. Tal vez fue por un tema político cuidadosamente estudiado. Tal vez hubo una beca para la investigación involucrada. Quizás fue un nuevo plan para dinamizar el mercado de valores. Cualquiera fuese la razón, sin duda se hizo la debida diligencia y todos los aspectos fueron considerados cuidadosamente. Ciertamente, la moción fue aprobada por el Senado una o dos veces....
82) Revenant
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En 1691, la ville de Crossfall a enseigné à la sorcière Thessaly comment mourir. Ils l'ont battue, l'ont tirée, l'ont pendue, mais rien n'a fonctionné. Quand ils ont enfin tenté de l'enterrer vivante, Thessaly a remonté le champ contre eux. Le premier homme est mort lorsqu'une bourrasque d'herbes a labouré la viande sur ses os. Une racine, projetée comme un javelot pourri, s'est plantée dans un deuxième homme. Plusieurs autres morts ont...
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Mais comment un kelpie, une ancienne meurtrière bibliothécaire d'un lycée, le Père Noël, le Hollandais Volant et le Krampus finirent-ils par en découdre avec un Corps expéditionnaire martien dans un bol de gravy volant non identifié? Pourquoi ne pas trouver par vous-même en vous procurant un exemplaire de ce livre?
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Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. Everyone can tell you one. Ghost stories haunt and linger and tantalize. Come on along with Steve Vernon - ghost story collector, writer, and teller, as he brings you eight of the creepiest yarns imaginable, stories that will creep up on you and teach you the fine old art of the booga-booga. Eight stories, including Steve's haunting salute to the road gang, "The Forever Long Road of Olan Walker". Walk down this road,...
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Tommy has come home from the city to visit his Dad for one last time. He is determined to get to the bottom, of all of the secrets that his Dad has kept for hidden behind a smokescreen of storytelling and charm. It turns out that some secrets are best left untold.
NOT JUST ANY OLD GHOST STORY is a quiet little story about coming home and ghosts that you can never escape and a love that never dies. It is a story that will take you to the very heart...
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Todo lo que has leído acerca de piegrande es una mentira.
¡Todo lo que has OÍDO acerca de piegrande es la verdad!
Disfruta de tres historias de los archivos del escuadrón Creep - ese paquete de leyendas y rumores indescriptibles de quienes combaten el crimen y la injusticia donde sea que no estés viendo.
¿Y si todas las historias fueran reales?
¿Y si piegrande realmente existió? ¿Y si él dependía de que las personas creyeran en él...
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¿Qué hacen un kelpie, una bibliotecaria de instituto exasesina, Papá Noel, el Holandés Errante y el Krampus enfrentándose cara a cara con una expedición marciana en un platillo volante sin identificar?¿Por qué no te haces con una copia del libro y lo averiguas por ti mismo?"Si Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson y Robert Bloch hubiesen hecho un trío en un jacuzzi y un equipo de científicos hubiesen filtrado el agua y mezclado el ADN sobrante...
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BOBBY KAYE's life story started and ended with an e-mail and then the monkey dung hit the fan. We're talking blue plague monkeys, tulwar-swinging cab drivers, a ride-on mower caravan of unbridled mass consumption and a moon-infatuated eight-legged story-telling spider god going toe-to-toe-to-toe-toe with the merciless scud-spear wielding Nigerian spam genie, Prince Wanna-Wanna-Wanna!
This is one of the wildest and weirdest novellas that I have...
89) Bigfoot Tracks
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Everything that you have read about Bigfoot is a lie.
Everything that you have HEARD about Bigfoot is the truth!
Enjoy three stories from the files of The Creep Squad - that pack of cryptids, legends, and nondescript rumors who fight crime and misjustice anywhere that you aren't looking.
What if ALL the stories were true?
What if Bigfoot really did exist? What if he depended upon people's belief in him for his very existence?
What if he needed...
91) Harry's Mermaid
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It happened in early September, the time of year when the city does its damndest to remember what heat was, just one more time before winter rocks on in...
This is a story of horror and haunting regret.
(fair warning, this is a STORY, maybe about eight thousand words)
A group of homeless men, fishing for a little fun and folly, latch onto something that MIGHT be a mermaid.
Regret lives on and lingers, long after the last teardrop has fallen.
92) Kelpie Dreams
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Meet Lady Macbeth-a high school librarian, ex-assassin, and part-time kelpie, whose mother wanted to name her Hemorrhoid at birth. Now she has to take on a Sea Hag- eight legs of Godzilla- ugly poured into a bucket full of meanness-with the help of a one-woman army named Rhonda, a 200-year-old Sea Captain, and a hunky lighthouse keeper, who won't admit that he's dead as well. KELPIE DREAMS is a funny, action-packed, shoot-em-up paranormal romance...
94) Big Hairy Deal
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So what happens when Bigfoot, the Trickster Coyote, the ghost of Sam Steele and the long-lost spirit of The Prophet, brother to the mighty Tecumseh and reincarnated in the form of a giant pink flying Winnebago go toe-to-toe with dark supernatural forces in a cross-Canada battle ranging from Cape Breton to Labrador to Thunder Bay?
I'm not saying that it is going to be pretty...
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So how DOES a kelpie, an ex-assassin high school librarian, Santa Claus, the Flying Dutchman and the Krampus wind up going toe-to-toe with a Martian Expeditionary Force in a highly unidentifiable flying gravy bowl?
Why don't you grab a copy of this book and see for yourself?
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Nobody really knew how long the old Funnel mansion had stood empty, waiting up there high on Carpenter's Hill like a child's forgotten lunch box, any more than anybody knew just how long that old cat had squatted in behind the screen of the front porch window. Three young boys are about to find out just exactly what the dark and horrifying secret is behind that cat - and only two of boys will survive.
This is a creepy and haunting story of the supernatural....
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A long plus a long plus about three more long times a hundred more longs squared to the hippopotamus long time ago, a boy sat all by himself just outside of his family's woodshed, drawing cats.
The boy was waiting to be punished, for drawing cats and he knew deep down inside of himself that he probably ought not to be drawing even more cats, but he honestly could not think of a better way to spend his time.
He drew happy cats.
He drew sad cats.
He...
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If you're from Halifax, you've probably heard that the Five Fisherman Restaurant is supposedly haunted, and that Georges Island is overrun with ghosts. If you're from Nova Scotia, you probably know about rumours of buried treasure on Oak Island, or about the UFO sighting in Shag Harbour. But what about the Grey Lady of Stoney Beach? Or the Ghost of Haddon Hall? Featuring addresses and GPS coordinates, this guide to Nova Scotian haunts maps out the...
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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...