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Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home

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Reads 250
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Parts 9
Time 55m

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Thaddeus Gale lives alone with his cat in a cabin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He never has visitors, no one has his phone number, and he likes it this way thank you very much. But, his pleasant routine is rocked when friend, former coworker, and amateur paranormal investigator Eliza Byrd tracks him down and ropes him into solving a weird murder in Monongahela National Forest. What will happen if he goes? And what's up with that black ooze in the woods?

A tale of friendship, mystery, and Ulysses by James Joyce.All Rights Reserved

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Underneath The Manor

In 1878 Western Europe, Francis Galloway finds his boss's paranormal detective business to the brink of bankruptcy. Miraculously, a mysterious outsider visits the business and tells them that he has a case for the boss to solve. When a sudden tragedy occurs, Francis finds the case in his hands, a case which will be most difficult but most rewarding. Join Francis Galloway as he leaves his home city to travel into the unknown where a mysterious manor is situated, one that houses a family who is haunted by such apparitions. Will Galloway solve the case and reveal what lies underneath and inside the manor? And does Galloway have more of a connection to the apparitions housed there than he thought? And what is the family who lives in the manor hiding?