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The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories

by Joan Aiken

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“I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.”
― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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“What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

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― Anna Kavan, Ice

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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more

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A group to discuss or trade names of books that fall into the loose genre known as SLIPSTREAM - fantastic fiction that transcends sci-fi, mainstream f ...more

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