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Mastercool 52226 Dual Temp Infrared Probe Thermometer $38.73 Infrared Temp Range: -67 to 428 Degrees F (-55 to 220 Degrees C) Probe Temp Range: -67 to 626 Degrees F (-55 to 330 Degrees C) Field of view ratio 1:1 Adjustable emissivity Backlit LCD displayThe 52226 Dual Temp Thermometer offers both infrared and contact probe technologies. Other features include lock mode for hands free scanning and Minimum/maximum capture mode. C… |
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Haunted Casinos-5 Piece Shot Glass Set……..Ghost Cards Collection $25.00 Five distinctive images, five vessels of intrigue!! Haunted Casinos the makers of the devilishly unique Ghost Cards playing card deck, now presents a set of 5 shot glasses equally unique and supremely striking. Four crystal clear glasses representing designs of Haunted Casinos’ recognizably askew perception of the four suits of the card table, Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs, Ace of Hearts and Ace of … |
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Christmas Eve and Other Stories $1.99 Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve and Other Stories a holiday rock opera? Or perhaps just a holiday prog-rock disc? Or maybe it’s New Age? Whatever the case may be, this isn’t your typical Christmas album. Filled with electric guitar solos, plenty of synthesized keyboards, a children’s choir, and lively drumming, Christmas Eve can only be compared to one other record, the Trans-Siber… |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Be Human $14.98 Brand New and manufacture sealed. First class shipping from New York. Customer satisfaction is guaranteed…. |
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Ghost In My Head $11.99 Ghost In My Head by Jill HennessyThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply…. |
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Ghost and The Darkness $2.99 … |
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 [Blu-ray] $9.97 In early 21st-century Japan, the search for a criminal computer genius known as “The Puppet Master” sends a cyborg policewoman on a dangerous search, leading her to a powerful artificial intelligence whose influence reaches into the government and who is looking for a physical form to inhabit. Spellbinding animated sci-fier, based on Masamune Shirow’s manga series. 82 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks:… |
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Apollo 18 (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) $11.63 The found-footage horror genre requires an unusual amount of give and take between filmmakers and their audience, with receptive viewers using their imagination to fill in the blanks that teasingly lie just beyond the camera’s narrow viewfinder. Apollo 18 boasts a novel setting and a nicely conspiratorial vibe, but suffers by its tendency to reveal too much too soon. Told via a combination of surv… |
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Gauss Master & K-II Deluxe Paranormal Pack EMF Meters $76.79 The Gauss Master & K-II Deluxe EMF Meters are Used by Professional Paranormal Investigators Worldwide !… |
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Bicycle Guardians Playing Cards $0.99 Bicycle Guardians Playing Cards are one classy deck of standard poker-sized cards, suitable for all your favorite card games. Card backs feature beautiful black-and-white illustrations of winged guardians. Their high-contrast elegance makes them the magician’s choice for showy card tricks, and each deck comes with tips and tricks for the amateur magician…. |
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Ghost Master $9.9 Die PC Spiele um groß einzusteigen. Uneingeschränkter Zugriff auf über 239 Spiele! 9,90€ / Monat |
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Ghost $6 Ghost |
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No Ghost $89 No Ghost |
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Master $89 Master |
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Master… $139 Master… |
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Ghost Hand $6 Ghost Hand |
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Ghost Castle $6 Ghost Castle |
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Little Ghost $6 Little Ghost |
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Sheet Ghost $6 Sheet Ghost |
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Ghost Finder $6 Ghost Finder |
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Ghost Train $6 Ghost Train |
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Spooky Ghost $6 Spooky Ghost |
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Cute Ghost $6 Cute Ghost |
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Spider Ghost $6 Spider Ghost |
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(Ghost) Riders in the Sky – Essential Elements Master Level $40 The sounds of the old west come alive in this exciting arrangement by Paul Lavender. Effectively scored for all sections, your players will have a blast playing this one! |
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07-Ghost, Volume 2 $8.43 Used – His best friend’s fate spurs Teito into trying to master the Bascule – a powerful weapon that can harness and focus his innate power. Friends become enemies and rivals become allies as Teito begins to fulfill his destiny, and protect his fallen country from the minions of his former masters. |
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07-Ghost, Volume 2 $6.88 Used – His best friend’s fate spurs Teito into trying to master the Bascule – a powerful weapon that can harness and focus his innate power. Friends become enemies and rivals become allies as Teito begins to fulfill his destiny, and protect his fallen country from the minions of his former masters. |
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07-Ghost, Volume 2 $8.85 New – His best friend’s fate spurs Teito into trying to master the Bascule – a powerful weapon that can harness and focus his innate power. Friends become enemies and rivals become allies as Teito begins to fulfill his destiny, and protect his fallen country from the minions of his former masters. |
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07-Ghost, Volume 2 $27.38 New – His best friend’s fate spurs Teito into trying to master the Bascule – a powerful weapon that can harness and focus his innate power. Friends become enemies and rivals become allies as Teito begins to fulfill his destiny, and protect his fallen country from the minions of his former masters. |
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10 Extreme Ghost Stories for Hardcore Horror Fans Only $1.25 Here are 10 ghost stories written by the long forgotten horror master of the 20th century, Algernon Blackwood. His vintage 228-page account is true to form in that it carefully builds the cases of 10 extreme hauntings in a psychological and material way that slowly brings goose bumps to your entire body. For fans of bizarre and subtle hauntings without the 21th century special effects and over exaggerations, this book is for you! The ghosts herein invade your personal space to the point that the term haunting is fully understood. |
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1900s In Fiction $24.3 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Films Set in the 1900s, Citizen Kane, the Battleship Potemkin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Life of Emile Zola, San Francisco, Doctor Zhivago, the Last Emperor, the Godfather Part Ii, Kings Row, Nicholas and Alexandra, Howards End, Heaven Can Wait, Meet Me in St. Louis, There Will Be Blood, the Prestige, Samantha: an American Girl Holiday, Lady and the Tramp, American Pop, Gigi, Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Victory Through Air Power, Finding Neverland, the Time Machine, Peter Pan, the Wind and the Lion, Holes, Devdas, the Red Baron, Wilde, the Emperor Waltz, the Color Purple, a Room With a View, Love in the Time of Cholera, Come and Get It, Bodyguards and Assassins, Boilerplate, 1906, the Road to Wellville, Cimarron, the Island at the Top of the World, Retro Puppet Master, the Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Chicken Every Sunday, Ragtime, the House of Mirth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, the Belle of New York, So Big, the Crowd, Maurice, the Keys of the Kingdom, Maskerade, Cavalcade, I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now, Road to Utopia, Johnny Got His Gun, the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the Go-Between, the Million Pound Note, Cheers for Miss Bishop, the Assassination Bureau, a Girl From Hunan, So Dear to My Heart, the Green Years, Illuminata, Bride of the Wind, Two Weeks With Love, Calendar Girl, Corazón Salvaje, the Seven Little Foys, Bloom, the Iceman Cometh, Port Sinister, Hammers Over the Anvil, of Freaks and Men. Excerpt: Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The film is often considered the greatest of all time and is particularly praised for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles’ first feature film. The film was nominated for A… More: |
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1900s in Fiction: Films Set in the 1900s, Citizen Kane, the Battleship Potemkin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Life of Emile Zola $55.04 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Films Set in the 1900s, Citizen Kane, the Battleship Potemkin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Life of Emile Zola, San Francisco, Doctor Zhivago, the Last Emperor, the Godfather Part Ii, Kings Row, Nicholas and Alexandra, Howards End, Heaven Can Wait, Meet Me in St. Louis, There Will Be Blood, the Prestige, Samantha: an American Girl Holiday, Lady and the Tramp, American Pop, Gigi, Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Victory Through Air Power, Finding Neverland, the Time Machine, Peter Pan, the Wind and the Lion, Holes, Devdas, the Time Machine, the Red Baron, Wilde, the Emperor Waltz, the Color Purple, a Room With a View, Love in the Time of Cholera, Come and Get It, Bodyguards and Assassins, 1900, Boilerplate, 1906, the Road to Wellville, Cimarron, the Island at the Top of the World, Retro Puppet Master, the Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Chicken Every Sunday, Ragtime, the House of Mirth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, the Belle of New York, So Big, the Crowd, Maurice, the Keys of the Kingdom, Maskerade, Cavalcade, I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now, Road to Utopia, Johnny Got His Gun, the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the Go-Between, the Million Pound Note, Cheers for Miss Bishop, the Assassination Bureau, a Girl From Hunan, Peter Pan, So Dear to My Heart, the Green Years, Illuminata, Bride of the Wind, Two Weeks With Love, Calendar Girl, Corazón Salvaje, the Seven Little Foys, Bloom, the Iceman Cometh, Port Sinister, Hammers Over the Anvil, of Freaks and Men, Corazón Salvaje. Excerpt: Boilerplate is a fictional robot of the Victorian era and early 20th century, created in 2000 by Portland, Oregon artist Paul Guinan. Originally intended for comics, the character became known via a faux-historical website created by Guinan, and has… |
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A Babe in Ghostland By Lisa Cach $5.99 Megan Barrows has retired from a brief career as a ghostbusting psychic and now uses her sixth sense to fill her Seattle antiques store with objects with happy pasts. After once nearly having the soul sucked out of her by a malevolent spirit, she prefers a quiet life.<P>Case Lambert is a real estate prospector who restores old houses, then sells them for profit. He has just bought a dilapidated mansion so amazing that he wants to keep it for himself, but the house appears to be haunted. <I>Seriously</i> haunted. A few inquiries lead him to Megan Barrows.<P>Megan at first refuses to help, but Case is a master of persuasion. Moving into the mansion, they discover that one of the ghosts has a thing for Case — and there may be even more amorous spirits inside this veritable paranormal vortex. But it soon becomes clear that no one — dead or alive — can stop Megan and Case from ending up in each other’s arms. . . . |
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings $8.95 This new selection of Dickens’s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as “Christmas Festivities,” “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” “A Christmas Tree,” “The Seven Poor Travellers,” The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey’s Clock.Author Biography: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, one of eight children, grew up in poverty, had little formal education, and yet became the most prominent and revered English Victorian writer as well as a political reporter and journalist. Michael Slater is an emeritus professor at Birkbeck College, London, and past president of the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. |
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings $11.35 This new selection of Dickens’s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as “Christmas Festivities,” “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” “A Christmas Tree,” “The Seven Poor Travellers,” The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey’s Clock.Author Biography: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, one of eight children, grew up in poverty, had little formal education, and yet became the most prominent and revered English Victorian writer as well as a political reporter and journalist. Michael Slater is an emeritus professor at Birkbeck College, London, and past president of the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. |
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings $10 This new selection of Dickens’s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as “Christmas Festivities,” “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” “A Christmas Tree,” “The Seven Poor Travellers,” The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey’s Clock.Author Biography: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, one of eight children, grew up in poverty, had little formal education, and yet became the most prominent and revered English Victorian writer as well as a political reporter and journalist. Michael Slater is an emeritus professor at Birkbeck College, London, and past president of the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. |
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A Ghost from the Shadows [Book 2: Shannon Delaney Paranormal Mystery Series] $5.5 Talented publicity writer Shannon Delaney rebounds from a failed romance and takes refuge in an assignment at 1920′s-era Magic Manor Dinner Theater on California’s Catalina Island, Avalon resort. Assured of quiet surroundings as the only lodger at the renovation-in-process Magic Manor, Shannon soon discovers she is not alone! Portentous events, haunting clues and spectral visitations draw Shannon into separate, yet interwoven, mysteries: The hunt for nineteenth-century pirate treasure, and a decade-old tragic death that reeks of dark intentions. Avalon, fabled as Hollywood’s getaway, is ideal as A Ghost From the Shadows location and for Shannon’s continuing adventures as she builds her career and strengthens her intuitive powers to speak to the past. Returning characters include: Alex Blackthorne, Aunt Dora, Francisco Zavala, Zach Zavala and Shannon’s personal spirit guid: Eric Blackthorne, master magician from the 1800′s. |
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A Ghost of a Chance [Shannon Delaney Series Book 1] $5.5 Shannon Delaney’s writing assignment in San Diego opens new doors for her young career. She has no idea that her temporary home, the Victorian-era Blackthorne House mansion is a portal to a century-old mystery. On her first night a ghostly encounter entagles her in the spectral mission of the mansion’s original owner-Eric Blackthorne, master magician. Complicating matters is Alex Blackthorne, handsome and charming descendent of the ghostly magician. Also, there’s Zach Zavala, who has guy-next-door good looks and a straightforward manner. Plus, Zach’s grandfather Francisco is a retired detective and a kindred spirit who appreciates Shannon’s apprehension about her paranormal experiences. Things-that-go-bump-in-the-night clues haunt Shannon’s sleep. By daylight eerie occurrences make it crystal clear what path Shannon must take. After solving the Blackthorne House mystery, Shannon is left with the biggest question of all? What about Alex and Zach, must she choose between them? |
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A Haunted Love Story $15.95 A Haunted Love Story is two tales in one: a modern family”s attempt to embrace their strange, spiritinhabited home and a vintage love affair kept secret for six decades. When Mark Spencer bought the beautiful old Allen House in Monticello, Arkansas, he knew that it was famously haunted. According to ghost lore, the troubled spirit of Ladell Allen, who mysteriously commited suicide in the master bedroom in 1948, still roamed the historic mansion. Yet Mark remained skeptical–until he and his family began witnessing faceless phantoms, a doppelganger spirit, and other paranormal phenomena. Ensuing ghost investigations offered convincing evidence that six spirits, including Ladell, inhabited their home. But the most shocking event occured the day Mark followed a strange urge to explore the attic and found, crammed under a floorboard, secret love letters that touchingly depict Ladell Allen”s forbidden, heart-searing romance–and shed light on her tragic end. |
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A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House $8.43 Used – A Haunted Love Story is two tales in one: a modern family’s attempt to embrace their strange, spirit-inhabited home and a vintage love affair kept secret for six decades. When Mark Spencer bought the beautiful old Allen House in Monticello, Arkansas, he knew that it was famously haunted. According to ghost lore, the troubled spirit of Ladell Allen, who mysteriously committed suicide in the master bedroom in 1948, still roamed the historic mansion. Yet Mark remained skeptical–until he and |
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A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House $6.39 Used – A Haunted Love Story is two tales in one: a modern family’s attempt to embrace their strange, spirit-inhabited home and a vintage love affair kept secret for six decades. When Mark Spencer bought the beautiful old Allen House in Monticello, Arkansas, he knew that it was famously haunted. According to ghost lore, the troubled spirit of Ladell Allen, who mysteriously committed suicide in the master bedroom in 1948, still roamed the historic mansion. Yet Mark remained skeptical–until he and |
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A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House $9.69 New – A Haunted Love Story is two tales in one: a modern family’s attempt to embrace their strange, spirit-inhabited home and a vintage love affair kept secret for six decades. When Mark Spencer bought the beautiful old Allen House in Monticello, Arkansas, he knew that it was famously haunted. According to ghost lore, the troubled spirit of Ladell Allen, who mysteriously committed suicide in the master bedroom in 1948, still roamed the historic mansion. Yet Mark remained skeptical–until he and |
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A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House $10.28 New – A Haunted Love Story is two tales in one: a modern family’s attempt to embrace their strange, spirit-inhabited home and a vintage love affair kept secret for six decades. When Mark Spencer bought the beautiful old Allen House in Monticello, Arkansas, he knew that it was famously haunted. According to ghost lore, the troubled spirit of Ladell Allen, who mysteriously committed suicide in the master bedroom in 1948, still roamed the historic mansion. Yet Mark remained skeptical–until he and |
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A Heart At Fire’s Center $60 31 b/w photographsNo composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C. Smith explores the interrelationships between Herrmann’s music and his turbulent personal life, using much previously unpublished information to illustrate Herrmann’s often outrageous behavior, his working methods, and why his music has had such lasting impact. From his first film (Citizen Kane) to his last (Taxi Driver), Herrmann was a master of evoking psychological nuance and dramatic tension through music, often using unheard-of instrumental combinations to suit the dramatic needs of a film. His scores are among the most distinguished ever written, ranging from the fantastic (Fahrenheit 451, The Day the Earth Stood Still) to the romantic (Obsession, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) to the terrifying (Psycho). Film was not the only medium in which Herrmann made a powerful mark. His radio broadcasts included Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air and The War of the Worlds. His concert music was commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic, and he was chief conductor of the CBS Symphony. Almost as celebrated as these achievements are the enduring legends of Herrmann’s combativeness and volatility. Smith separates myth from fact and draws upon heretofore unpublished material to illuminate Herrmann’s life and influence. Herrmann remains as complex as any character in the films he scored-a creative genius, an indefatigable musicologist, an explosive bully, a generous and compassionate man who desperately sought friendship and love. |
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A Master of Craft $29.95 New – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, an |
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A Master of Craft $66.45 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, and the fore-scuttle and the companion were both inhospitably closed. The quiet of evening was over everything, broken only by the whirr of the paddles of a passenger steamer as it passed carefully up the center of the river, or the plash of a lighterman’s huge sweep as he piloted his unwieldy craft down on the last remnant of the ebb-tide. In shore, various craft sat lightly on the soft Thames mud: some affecting a rigid uprightness, others with their decks at various angles of discomfort. |
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A Master of Craft $20.27 New – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, an |
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A Master of Craft $21.75 New – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, an |
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A Master of Craft $17.91 New – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, an |
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A Master of Craft $43.74 New – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, an |
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A Master of Craft $28.95 New – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, an |
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A Master of Craft $21.75 Used – 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, a |
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A Master of Craft $18.65 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, and the fore-scuttle and the companion were both inhospitably closed. The quiet of evening was over everything, broken only by the whirr of the paddles of a passenger steamer as it passed carefully up the center of the river, or the plash of a lighterman’s huge sweep as he piloted his unwieldy craft down on the last remnant of the ebb-tide. In shore, various craft sat lightly on the soft Thames mud: some affecting a rigid uprightness, others with their decks at various angles of discomfort. |
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A Master of Craft $32.95 1899. Jacobs is known especially for his sea stories. His familiarity with the wharves and the people who frequented them gave him material for these stories. He is also known for some of his short ghost tales and stories of mystery and the macabre, such as the Monkey’s Paw. A Master of Craft begins: A pretty girl stood alone on the jetty of an old-fashioned wharf at Wapping, looking down upon the silent deck of a schooner below. No smoke issued from the soot-stained cowl of the galley, and the fore-scuttle and the companion were both inhospitably closed. The quiet of evening was over everything, broken only by the whirr of the paddles of a passenger steamer as it passed carefully up the center of the river, or the plash of a lighterman’s huge sweep as he piloted his unwieldy craft down on the last remnant of the ebb-tide. In shore, various craft sat lightly on the soft Thames mud: some affecting a rigid uprightness, others with their decks at various angles of discomfort. |
