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Alone in a Furniture Warehouse

Backrooms – We saw this on Wednesday, and I don’t think I was aware of the web series it was based on, or the Creepypasta that inspired that. The original image was taken of a former furniture store that was … Continue reading

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Through an Uskglass Darkly

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke – The author’s debut novel was recommended to me because I liked her Piranesi.This book was much longer and more complicated, but I liked it. It takes place in the early nineteenth … Continue reading

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Mazes, Memory, and Magic

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke – This is the first thing I’ve read by this author, and it was pretty fascinating. The protagonist and narrator is called Piranesi after the eighteenth century Italian artist and archaeologist (not that he knows that), … Continue reading

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