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Mary Hallberg grew up watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? on Nickelodeon and reading Goosebumps books under the covers. As soon as she was old enough for a Blockbuster card, she graduated to horror classics like Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Evil Dead. She lives in Mississippi, where she’s always hard at work looking for the most effective way to scare her readers.

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I love traveling, but the word ‘tourist’ has a bad reputation. We all know the stereotype of the middle aged couples in oversized t-shirts and fanny packs, fawning over ordinary looking landmarks simply because someone famous lived there or made a speech there. But there are plenty of tourist attractions with a darker history they don’t tell you about in guide books. Here are four famous places yo

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“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. ”
― Lawrence Block

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“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

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