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After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

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Chris Priestley

Chris Priestley

Born: August 25, 1958 (age 66)
Bio: Chris Priestley is an award-winning British children's book author and illustrator. He lives, in Cambridge.
Known for:
  1. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror (2007)
  2. Mister Creecher (2011)
  3. Tales of Terror from the Black Ship (2008)
  4. Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth (2010)
  5. The Dead of Winter (2010)

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