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Dark Woods, Deep Water

I’m doing some catching up on old reads, and here’s another one. I don’t know the author, this time, but I bought the book because of the publisher, which often associates it with the stunning “Winter Harvest” by Ioanna Papadopoulou, and the association is on

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Marjorie Bowen — Dark Ann

NOTHING could have been more neutral, more dull; the scene was the lecture hall of one of our most learned societies, as austere and grim a place as the cold mind and lifeless taste of Science could conceive, or anyhow did conceive and execute in

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Sabine Baring-Gould — A Christmas Tree

Tom Mountstephen was dressed in his very best—a black coat, a tie of blue satin studded with veritable planets, and in it a new zodiacal sign—a fox in full career, that formed the head of a pin. Tom’s collar was so stiffly starched and so

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Dark Woods, Deep Water

I’m doing some catching up on old reads, and here’s another one. I don’t know the author, this time, but I bought the book because of the publisher, which often associates it with the stunning “Winter Harvest” by Ioanna Papadopoulou, and the association is on

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