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  • The top ten books for creeping out kids<\/a>: a guide for parents. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cGive your ghost a life story, and other rules for writing a ghost story<\/a>.\u201d <\/li>\n
  • What scares Neil Gaiman<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  • Scariest of all: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have known about my Russian pirate translator had I not set a Google Alert for the title of my debut novel when it was published, in April 2011.\u201d Peter Mountford<\/a> chronicles an unlikely alliance.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cIt was, perhaps, inevitable that\u00a0Homo floresiensis<\/a>, the three-foot-tall species of primitive human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores, would come to be widely known as \u2018hobbits.\u2019 After all, like J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s creation, \u2018they were a little people, about half our height.\u2019 But a New Zealand scientist planning an event about the species\u00a0has been banned from describing the ancient people as \u2018hobbits\u2019<\/a> by representatives of the Tolkien estate<\/a>.\u201d\n

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