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When nothing else will do, sign it in blood!

Finally I can get started on my own interpretation of the Necronomicon.

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A 17th century book believed to be bound in the skin of a priest executed for treason appears to bear a “spooky” image of his face on the cover, according to the auctioneers who are selling the book.

Sid Wilkinson, from Wilkinson’s Auctioneers in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who will be selling the book on Sunday, said he could see the Jesuit priest’s face peering out from the cover. He said: “It’s a little bit spooky because the front of the book looks like it has the face of a man on it, which is presumed to be the victim’s face.”

From The Guardian

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To celebrate Halloween, The Guardian’s Sam Jordison visits Whitby in Yorkshire - a quiet seaside market town….and, of course, the scene of Dracula’s evil work.

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Tis the season to be scared out of your tree. If you want to sleep poorly this weekend AbeBooks.com Avid Readers have voted on the 10 scariest characters in literature of all time.

Is there anyone YOU would have put on the list instead?

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The prolific horror author was caught by a customer in an Alice Springs (Australia) bookstore, putting pen to page on six copies of his newest book, The Cell.

The customer went straight to management and explained that some jerk was wrecking the books. Turns out the manager had an idea that it might be Stephen King himself, and had her suspicions confirmed when she met the author in the produce section of a local grocery store.

When asked if it was the first time an author had simply come in a started signing,the store manager replied: “They don’t normally just open the books and go for it.”

The signed Stephen King books will be donated to various charities concerned with literature.

Story from The Age

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