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Halloween Reads

September 25, 2013

You probably know by now that Halloween is my favorite holiday and I celebrate it for weeks. Even when it’s not October, I read ghost stories and gothic novels. But now that the nights are coming on sooner, leaves are crackling underfoot and the air is just a bit cooler, here are some creepy reads…

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 15

October 15, 2012

Ok, we are half way through the 31 Days of Halloween, so I’d say it’s time for a post on the American epitome of the macabre. We’ll get to the creepy stuff, but did you know these things about him? Poe was a respected, if fearsome, literary critic. Within the Allan home, he was part…

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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 2

October 2, 2012

I’m sure this won’t be the only post in 31 Days of Halloween to feature that great American writer of the Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe. But did you know he also wrote a The Balloon Hoax of 1844? It was a very complicated and technical story about two men who successfully flew across the Atlantic…

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PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part The Fourth

August 13, 2012

Penguin has got himself into trouble this time! He had a weak point — this Fortunato — although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at…

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Poe Baseball Card

April 20, 2012

How cool is this? A baseball trading card made by the very cool folks at Novel-T. It seems the only way to obtain this awesomeness is to visit their booth, #211, at (LATFOB) this weekend.