Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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Many people ask you what you're afraid of. You'd probably answer something along the lines of 'Spiders, public speaking, heights, snakes' or something else entirely. What about the dark? Does it frighten you? The things inside it? Shifting around silently right under your very nose? Well, my dear reader, this book will magnify your fear of the dark, if it exists or not. This story is about shadows and fear, and the melding of the two.
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