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	You Shall Never Know Security 3.86 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer 4.15 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2015 — 8 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
	A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe 4.26 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2018 — 5 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
	You Know It's True 4.01 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2021 — 5 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
	For When the Veil Drops by Christian Larsen, Doug Murano (Goodreads Author), C. Bryan Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Faithfully and Lovingly 4.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016	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 Nightmare Library: 10 Whispers from the Dark by Velox Books, Richard Saxon, Hannah Costin 3.91 avg rating — 34 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
	Not for Nothing is the English Word Plight (a bad situation) Related to the Dutch Word Plicht 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	You Know It's True: A Collection of Short Horror Stories in the Weird, Lovecraftian, and Cosmic Horror Vein by J.R. Hamantaschen (Goodreads Author), Velox Books, Geoff Sturtevant (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 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
	You Shall Never Know Security: A Collection of Short Horror Stories in the Weird, Lovecraftian, and Cosmic Horror Vein by J.R. Hamantaschen (Goodreads Author), Velox Books, Geoff Sturtevant (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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“Everything I think I’m doing for my own benefit has some incidental evolutionary advantage!”
― J.R. Hamantaschen, You Shall Never Know Security

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“other form without the prior written permission of the author, although permission may easily be obtained upon receipt of compliments and winky-glances while you lick your lips and make suggestive motions with a straw. To the extent these stories may be reproduced, they shall be reproduced only like cancer cells, until they crowd out and destroy all other stories they appear alongside of; to the extent they may be transmitted, they shall be transmitted without words, without thoughts, and without consent, appearing in the mind as if they’ve always been there, just waiting to be unearthed; and to the extent these stories shall be distributed, they shall be distributed surreptitiously and with some degree of shame, a hushed secret, an ignoble pact.”
― J.R. Hamantaschen, A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe

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“So those pills that offered painless relief stayed stored on the shelf, out of the strength of her reach, high atop the altar of platitudes.”
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