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"This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial, and The Tell-Tale Heart, all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories, and include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The...
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"Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when the kids hear gunshots at the house next door, they jump at the chance to launch their own amateur investigation--and after all, why shouldn't they? They know everything the cops do about crime scenes, having read about them in mother's novels. They know what her literary detectives would do in such...
6) Witches
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Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Discusses witches, including ancient witches; the years between 1450 and 1700 during which time people accused of being witches were violently persecuted; witchcraft today; and magic and spells.
8) Ghosts
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Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Provides a history of ghosts, descriptions of different types of hauntings, and information on the people who seek scientific evidence that apparitions are real.
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