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Mark Leslie

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in Sudbury, ON, Canada

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Horror, Thriller, Paranormal

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Mark is a writer, editor and bookseller who was born and grew up in Sudbury, spent many years in Ottawa and Hamilton and currently lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

When he is not writing, he tacks "Lefebvre" back onto his name and works as a book industry consultant, having been a bookseller since the 1992, the same year his first short story was published.

Apart from publishing novels and non-fiction paranormal explorations under the name Mark Leslie, having works occasionally appearing on his mother's refrigerator door under the name Mark Lefebvre, and podcasting and consulting about the book industry under the name Mark Leslie Lefebvre for his Stark Publishing/Stark Reflections brand, Mark is a lover of craft beer.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 2,028 ratings · 466 reviews · 127 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Canadian Werewolf in New York (Canadian Werewolf, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2016 — 7 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
	Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries 3.22 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	This Time Around: A Canadian Werewolf Story 3.90 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2012 — 9 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
	Campus Chills by Mark Leslie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2009 — 3 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
	Snowman Shivers: Two Dark Humor Snowmen Tales 3.47 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles 4.12 avg rating — 74 ratings — 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
	Night Cries (Nocturnal Screams #1) 3.68 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2017 — 3 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
	Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales about Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions by Mark Leslie (Goodreads Author), Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2017 — 3 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
	Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers 3.36 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Fear and Longing in Los Angeles (Canadian Werewolf, #3) 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings — 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

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Trivia About National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!If you're familiar with that phrase, then chances are that you're likely a fan of the perennial modern classic Christmas comedy National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And if you've seen the movie a number of times, you might be up for a quick trivia challenge associated with it.The movie, which was originally released in theaters on December 1, 1989,

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Nocturnal Screams (9 books)
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Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World

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All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

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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

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“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

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“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

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“Do the women in my novels get what they want? Yes. Yes, they do, dammit.”
― Julie Strauss

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“when it comes to losing people’s trust. It’s probably the most precious thing you can give a person, and when it’s violated, it takes a lot of time and effort to win it back.”
― Ell Leigh Clarke, Called

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