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Acquired taste : chilling stories

Acquired taste : chilling stories

Chapman, Clay McLeod, author.
Book 2025

"A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one. From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns; from the claustrophobia of the Covid-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fe...

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ISBN:
9781835410783
1835410782
Edition:
First Edition
Description:
289 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
A collection of 25 short stories
Contents:
The fireplace
Cyan, magenta, yellow, the key
Who brings a baby?
The spew of news
Stowaway
Baby carrots
Fairy ring
Room with a boo
Pump and dump
Keep it civil
Battlefield seances
Pick of the litter
Sisterhood of the salamander
Knockoffs
Debridement
Psychic Santa
Posterboard
Our summer in the pit
Sweetmeat
Nail on the head
The nocturnal gardener
Hermit
All ears
Story on the line
Nathan Ballingrud's haunting horror recs
Control Number:
3407316
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