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  2. Luka and the Fire of Life - Wikipedia

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    Luka Khalifa, the protagonist of the book, is a twelve-year-old left-handed boy, who goes on a quest to save his dying father. He shows courage throughout the book and has the ability to curse his enemies, such as cursing Captain Aag, which causes his animals to revolt and his tents to burn down. Bear, the singing dog, a chocolate Labrador ...

  3. For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...

  4. You Like It Darker - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-1668037713. Preceded by. If It Bleeds. You Like It Darker is a collection of twelve stories by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner in May 2024. [ 1] The book was announced on November 6, 2023, via Entertainment Weekly, which provided a look at the book's wraparound cover, table of contents, and an excerpt from ...

  5. Reading in the Dark - Wikipedia

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    Reading in the Dark won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Irish Literature Prizes, and is a New York Times Notable Book. It also won the 1996 South Bank Show Award for Literature, and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. [citation needed] It has been translated into 20 languages.

  6. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Wikipedia

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    Publisher. Harper & Row. Publication date. 1981–1991. Publication place. United States. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist ...

  7. Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed - Wikipedia

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    August 1949. " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949, under the title " The Naming of Names ". It was subsequently included in the short-story collections A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space .

  8. Closed-eye hallucination - Wikipedia

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    This can be seen when the eyes are closed and looking at the back of the eyelids. In a bright room, a dark red can be seen, owing to a small amount of light penetrating the eyelids and taking on the color of the blood it has passed through. In a dark room, blackness can be seen or the object can be more colourful.

  9. The Bad Beginning - Wikipedia

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    The Bad Beginning. Book the First: The Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who become orphans following a fire and are sent to live with Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance.