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Mark Leslie
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Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries
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Campus Chills
by , — published 2009 — 5 editions |
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Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers
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Snowman Shivers: Scary Snowmen Tales
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions
by — 4 editions |
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Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie Unexplained
by — published 2013 — 5 editions |
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I, Death
— published 2014 — 4 editions |
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Active Reader: And Other Cautionary Tales about the Book World
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
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Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound
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Nocturnal Screams: Volume 1: Night Cries
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I'm not sure where that dark part of my imagination comes from.
But ever since I have been writing, my mind regularly turns to the shadows, pulls something either darkly humorous or perhaps just dark in general.
Below are two examples.
During the recent LAUREL vs YANNY audio debates (where, based on a released file, some people hear "Laurel" and other people hear "Yanny") I had two
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But ever since I have been writing, my mind regularly turns to the shadows, pulls something either darkly humorous or perhaps just dark in general.
Below are two examples.
During the recent LAUREL vs YANNY audio debates (where, based on a released file, some people hear "Laurel" and other people hear "Yanny") I had two
Read more of this blog post »
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What if Stephen King's Carrie White was a gay male growing up in a small Ontario town like Milton in the early 90's? This is a delicious and dark read from an author who never disappoints. This novel is raw, emotional and frightening, stemming from bot ...more |
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“I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.”
― Mark Leslie, Beyond The Pasta: Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian Family
― Mark Leslie, Beyond The Pasta: Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian Family
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself
“There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”
― Edwin Markham
― Edwin Markham
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Small Press Publisher who is also a bit small himself.
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Many thanks, Mark. Have a great weekend!Best Always,
Fran Friel
Hi Mark,Thanks for the "add" and always a pleasure to talk to another practitioner of "dark fiction."
