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The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled are affected by shortages. Sickness spreads as a red fungus overtakes fields, seals over windows, and infiltrates cellars.
On the way back from the Napoleonic Wars in France, Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Penderbrook, returns to find his...
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The house was creepy. No getting around that. Windows covered on the inside with tinfoil so nobody could look in. And, barred on the outside so nobody could get out. KEEP OUT and BEWARE OF DOGS signs everywhere. Pictures on the walls that seem like eyes are watching her from between the trees. Everything's brown and yellow, hasn't been updated since the Seventies...and a bad smell, too...
You never know what you're going to get, cleaning houses for...
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What is the true story of Castle Frankenstein, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's famous novel? Was there ever a mad scientist? A monster? A pursuit across the Arctic ice? Because there is a Castle Frankenstein, and you can go there and walk around the ruined stones, poke around in the forest, and eat lunch.
The legends that get told by the people who work at Castle Frankenstein are strange, but the layers leading downward into the truth are stranger.
And...
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The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass...
It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.
A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.
The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as...
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A desperate mother summons the spirits as her infant son's last hope...but what if she's wrong?
A group of women hold a séance on a dark and snowy winter's night to summon forth wisdom from beyond the grave in order to save a sickly child. But, what is the real nature of the spirit that answers the summons?
And, will they have to call forth something even worse to save them from what their séance brings?
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