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	The Lost Film by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Mark West (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Peel Back the Sky by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Nicholas Royle (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Ill At Ease 2 by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Laudanum Nights 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Murmured In Dreams by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Priya Sharma (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019 — 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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The First Pan Book of Horror Stories

by Herbert van Thal

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God's Country

by Kerry Hadley-Pryce

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The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure (Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, #5)

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The Bottle factory Outing is the first thing I've read by Beryl Bainbridge, a writer with an excellent reputation and an award-winning career. It's easy to see why she is so highly regarded. The prose is superb, crammed full of sharp dialogue and som ...more
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This is a chronological run through of the UK music scene from Jan 1980 to December 1989, crammed with trivia and snippets of information. Whilst there wasn't a huge amount of info that I was not previously familiar with, it's an enjoyable enough bas ...more
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Following Nicholas Royle's London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny, this third entry is the final volume of short weird stories inspired by the cities in which the author has lived. It too is published by Confingo Publishing. This entry features fourtee ...more
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This is the first in the series of detective novels by Dennis Lehane (and his debut) featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. I had seen the film version of Gone Baby Gone (which is actually the fourth book in the series) so ...more
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