A terminally-ill man meets a woman on the ski slopes of the French Alps, where she rescues him in impossible circumstances. After waking in a military hospital, an accident victim no longer needs food and is forbidden to look into a mirror. What is the meaning of the ghostly parade in the seventeenth-century manor Gryphon's Court? A plague of vampires descends upon a quiet country village. A children's entertainer tells a private enquiry agent an incredible story.
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My armless body (an experimental prototype, indeed) was a fusion of steel cylinders, cogs and what looked like heavy-duty bolts. Where the stomach should have been was a rectangular projection that I somehow knew was a battery pack. From the angular head, artificial eyes looked back at me in terror, as the first seconds of denial gave way to the inescapable truth.
This was what they had done to me!
This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst
Her grandma always said she had “the blessing”, and to always use it for good, but sometimes there is shame in fame if a person can’t handle it. Don’t let the Boo Hag ride ya
