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	The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse by Brandon Applegate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Taryn Martinez (Contributor), Carson Winter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right by Brandon Applegate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Erin Keating (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doom That Came To Mellonville 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Most Likely To Summon Nyhiloteph 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forest Dreams With Teeth 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beach Vibes 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kayfabe 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fringewood by Madison McSweeney (Goodreads Author), Alien Buddha (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Happened At Blackthorn it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doom that Came to Mellonville 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Portable Blake

by William Blake

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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

by Marshall McLuhan

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

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Madison McSweeney rated a book it was amazing The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A delightfully charming love letter to nature and art.
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Madison McSweeney wants to read Crone by Keith Rosson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Madison McSweeney rated a book it was amazing Psychros by Charlene Elsby (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A stream-of-consciousness murder diary filled with wordplay and philosophical brain-twisters. I was alternately giggling and recoiling in horror.
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I actually don’t love the central revelation, but nonetheless I was swept away by the ambition and scope of this book. The final explanations do demystify the Ring universe somewhat, but just enough existential questions are left unexplained that the ...more
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Madison McSweeney rated a book really liked it A Murder of Quality (George Smiley, #2) by John le Carré	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
George Smiley plays detective in this insular and startlingly eerie mystery.
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Madison McSweeney rated a book it was amazing Vathek by William Beckford	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An absurd and opulent morality tale with a strikingly disturbing ending.
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Madison McSweeney rated a book it was amazing Vathek by William Beckford	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An absurd and opulent morality tale with a strikingly disturbing ending.
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Madison McSweeney rated a book it was amazing Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) by Eden Robinson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Expertly juggles a huge cast of offbeat and believably human characters with increasingly strange magical realism sequences. Brilliant.
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Madison McSweeney rated a book it was amazing The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts by Tomson Highway	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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