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Cryptopolis and Other Stories
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Cryptopolis and Other Stories

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EUR22,50

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Last week, did you tell your best friend why the King of Cryptopolis has gone insane and why he ordered his guards to behead him? Do you know the secret of the black magician Aleister Crowley-how he wrote of the moonchild, an ethereal spirit to be placed in a barren womb? Have you ever heard of Arson Hoover and the Worldwide Church of Appliantology? If you answered no to any of these, you're clearly misinformed about the newest collection of dark and fantastical stories by Robert Guffey. How would you even survive Casual Day at work? When the tattoos begin to pile up on your flesh like unlucky cars drawn to an accident on the freeway, don't come crying to me-I am just the back cover of a book, after all--but look for the answers inside me, inside Guffey's head, which I have chopped off and bound in paper.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-59021-768-9
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
PublisherLethe Press
Publishing date13/01/2024
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 229 mm, Thickness 22 mm
Weight600 g
Article no.27954809
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A48367176
Product groupBU123
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