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Product Description: Black Death to the Blitz, in one bloody volume Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease, and horror. This amazing collection explores it all, including Vikings, Saxons, Normans, and Picts; attacks, battles, sieges, and assaults; dozens of dreadful royal deaths, disease, and disasters; and terrifying true stories of pestilence and the plague...read more

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9780750952347 | History Pr Ltd, February 1, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Black Death to the Blitz, in one bloody volume Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease, and horror.

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Product Description: Full details of where to find, and how to kill, all of Britain's most historic zombies—a guide for history lovers to get the most out of the zombie apocalypse Are you worried about the zombie apocalypse? Clasp a copy of this book and make sure to secure yourself a better class of horrible death from one of Britain's best-loved historical legends...read more

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9780752499642 | Trafalgar Square, August 1, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Full details of where to find, and how to kill, all of Britain's most historic zombies—a guide for history lovers to get the most out of the zombie apocalypse Are you worried about the zombie apocalypse?

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Product Description: The ultimate compendium of trivia miscellany about Scotland's unusual historyTake a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed look at the most frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information that there is to tell about Scotland. Here we find out about unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, and literally hundreds of other wacky facts about Scotland...read more

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9780752493329 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The ultimate compendium of trivia miscellany about Scotland's unusual historyTake a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed look at the most frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information that there is to tell about Scotland.

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Product Description: The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts...read more

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9780752486307 | Trafalgar Square, July 1, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Little Book of Edinburgh is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no one will want to be without.

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Product Description: In 1945 the celebrated psi-researcher Harry Price published Poltergeist over England, popularizing the word poltergeist (German for "noisy ghost") and making famous the kind of physical haunting characterised by thrown objects, mysterious noises, and damage by fire or water...read more

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9780752482835 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 1945 the celebrated psi-researcher Harry Price published Poltergeist over England, popularizing the word poltergeist (German for "noisy ghost") and making famous the kind of physical haunting characterised by thrown objects, mysterious noises, and damage by fire or water.

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9780752462936 | Trafalgar Square, December 1, 2012, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: With the country’s oldest university and the ruins of both a magnificent castle and one of the grandest cathedrals of medieval Europe, St Andrews is one of the most beautiful and historic places in Scotland. But it’s also one of the most haunted...read more

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9780752458489 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: With the country’s oldest university and the ruins of both a magnificent castle and one of the grandest cathedrals of medieval Europe, St Andrews is one of the most beautiful and historic places in Scotland.

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Product Description: Paranormal Cumbria

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9780752454122 | Trafalgar Square, April 13, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Paranormal Cumbria

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Product Description: Drawing on historical and contemporary sources and containing many tales which have never before been published, Haunted Dundee will delight everyone interested in the paranormal.

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9780752458496 | Trafalgar Square, February 16, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Drawing on historical and contemporary sources and containing many tales which have never before been published, Haunted Dundee will delight everyone interested in the paranormal.

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Product Description: The Little Book of Glasgow is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, and literally hundreds of wacky facts...read more

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9780752460048 | Trafalgar Square, December 1, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Little Book of Glasgow is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no one will want to be without.

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Product Description: Standing on a lonely Perthshire road is the only historic monument to a named witch in the whole of Britain. But did "Maggie Wall" actually exist? This book reveals the controversial truth for the first time. (Even more surprising results come from a quest to uncover the reality of Perthshire's other famous witch, Kate McNiven...read more

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9780752454214 | History Pr Ltd, June 1, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Standing on a lonely Perthshire road is the only historic monument to a named witch in the whole of Britain.

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Product Description: Paranormal Glasgow digs into the strange and peculiar stories of Scotland's greatest city. Here are tales of contemporary ghosts and historical haunting, UFO and big-cat sightings, time slips, spontaneous human combustion, bizarre beliefs, and urban legends...read more

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9780752454207 | History Pr Ltd, May 1, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Paranormal Glasgow digs into the strange and peculiar stories of Scotland's greatest city.

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9780752454191 | History Pr Ltd, February 1, 2011, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Aberdeen is full of mysteries, marvels, and strangeness, and this book is a comprehensive guide to them all. Here you will encounter magic, witchcraft, folklore, and superstitions; contemporary urban legends; gargoyles and graveyards; graverobbers and murderers; stone circles and prehistoric burial sites; UFOs and freak weather; and tales of horror, madness, humor—and dangerous porridge...read more

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9780752456591, titled "The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen" | History Pr Ltd, February 1, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Aberdeen is full of mysteries, marvels, and strangeness, and this book is a comprehensive guide to them all.

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Product Description: Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland, as criminals, gravediggers, and middle-class medical students alike stole newly-buried corpses for the anatomy schools. Only after the trials of the infamous murderers Burke and Hare did the grisly trade end—murderers whose dissected skeletons are pictured in this book...read more

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9780752456034 | History Pr Ltd, December 1, 2010, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland, as criminals, gravediggers, and middle-class medical students alike stole newly-buried corpses for the anatomy schools.

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Product Description: From reports of haunted castles, hotels, public houses, chapels, and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists, and related supernatural phenomena, this collection of stories contains both well-known and hitherto unpublished tales from around the city of Aberdeen...read more

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9780752455334 | History Pr Ltd, December 1, 2010, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: From reports of haunted castles, hotels, public houses, chapels, and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists, and related supernatural phenomena, this collection of stories contains both well-known and hitherto unpublished tales from around the city of Aberdeen.

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A poignant collection of the young author's lesser-known writings includes short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, previously deleted excerpts from her diary, and an unfinished novel composed while she was hidden from the Nazis during World War II. Reprint.

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9780553569834, titled "Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex" | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1994), cover price $3.50 | also contains Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex | About this edition: A collection of the young author's lesser-known writings includes short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, previously deleted excerpts from her diary, and an unfinished novel composed while she was hidden from the Nazis during World War II

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Product Description: The old horse pulled the baker's van along its daily route, stopping and waiting for its usual customers in the peaceful village. But the driver's seat was empty, and the cart was drenched with blood...So began the Blairingone Bread Cart Murder, a gruesome case of highway robbery that ended with poacher Joseph Bell being hanged for ambushing John Miller and blasting him with a shotgun...read more

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9781848680722 | Gardners Books, April 16, 2009, cover price $21.25 | About this edition: The old horse pulled the baker's van along its daily route, stopping and waiting for its usual customers in the peaceful village.

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Product Description: This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric, and mysterious that has occurred on the small, windswept isle of Arran and is a fascinating introduction to the heritage of this spectacular part of Scotland...read more

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9780752447209 | History Pr Ltd, May 1, 2008, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric, and mysterious that has occurred on the small, windswept isle of Arran and is a fascinating introduction to the heritage of this spectacular part of Scotland.

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Contains everything folkloric, supernatural, paranormal, eccentric and odd that has been recorded about the county. This guide presents an introduction to Perthshire's tombstones, simulacra, standing stones, gargoyles and archaeological curiosities; tales of ghosts, fairies, witchcraft, freak weather, strange deaths, tall tales and hoaxes.

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9780752441405 | Gardners Books, November 1, 2006, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: Contains everything folkloric, supernatural, paranormal, eccentric and odd that has been recorded about the county.

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