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Catherine Schaff-Stump

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Horror, Gothic, Fantasy

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Alexander Dumas, Peter Beagle, Jane Austen

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May 2009

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Cath Schaff-Stump writes fantasy for children and adults. She writes funny stories, dark stories, and everything in between. She is the author of the Klaereon Scroll series and the Abigail Rath Versus series. Cath lives and works in Iowa. She hosts the blog Fantastic History and writes the Substack column The Crone.

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	The Vessel of Ra (The Klaereon Scroll #1) 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings — 6 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 Pawn of Isis (The Klaereon Scroll #2) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 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
	Paradise Icon Anthology 2020 by Catherine Schaff-Stump (Goodreads Author), Chris Bauer, Doug Engstrom (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 8 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
	Hulk Hercules Professional Wrestler 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	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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	Alembical 4: A Distallation of Two Novellas by Catherine Schaff-Stump (Goodreads Author), Travis Heermann (Goodreads Author), Lawrence M. Schoen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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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A happy New Year to all you and yours, as we begin 2026.

Transformation has been my watch word this past year. In August I wrote to you about my retirement. Bryon and I spent two months in Orlando, Fl, in October and November, rediscovering what it was like to be connected to a community of people. We discovered we liked living an analog life in Orlando, and imagine we will be moving there sometime

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The Klaereon Scroll (2 books)
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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Away with the Fairies (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries #11)

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