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In one of the fantasy novels he loved

nike shox torch jordans for sale In one of the fantasy novels he loved, Fric had read that ghosts could appear by an act of their own will, but could not long sustain material form if you failed to focus on them, that your wonder and your fear empowered and sustained them. He’d read that […]

what her picture was meant to signify

A cursed amulet, a poultice formulated to draw the immortal soul out of anyone who held it, a voodoo dofunny, a black-magic jiggum-bob, a satanic polywhatsit, or any of the weird and grisly items you might have expected to receive from something that lived inside mirrors would have been less surprising and less mystifying than […]

Both slick and crackled in texture

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along the lonely third floor

He sprinted along the end aisle, to the attic stairs, around and down the spiral staircase, feet slamming with such panic-powered force that behind him the metal treads thrummed like drumskins quivering with the memory of thunder. From east hall to north, along the lonely third floor, he quaked as he passed closed doors that […]

and passed something to him

By turns, his experience with the man from the mirror played in memory like a dream but then as real as the smell of his own fear sweat. He felt a need to know what was truth and what was not, perhaps because too much of his life seemed unreal, making it impossible to tolerate […]