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The horrifying cosmic entity that terrorized a generation of readers wasn't conjured from the profound depths of the cosmos. Stephen King was simply walking…
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Thomas Hardy heavily popularized ending weekly published chapters with characters literally hanging off literal cliffs. He brilliantly tortured his Victorian…
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J.K. Rowling didn't invent Dementors from a fantasy trope. The soul-sucking creatures were designed as a literal metaphor for what?
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