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THE X-MEN #12, JULY 1965
“I can read his every thought! First, he’ll break my trophies… then he’ll beat me up!”
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North Dark | Chapter 6 of 21
Men wrapped in wolfskins reach up to their biceps into garbage cans filled with vegetable alcohol.
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself and My Bad Tattoo
It’s summer and the bad tattoos are in bloom.
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North Dark | Chapter 5 of 21
Two Crows draws his knife from its sheath by only a degree—an inch of blade—and steps toward them.
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North Dark | Chapter 4 of 21
The man, a heavy adventurer with a shaved head and a white beard, hunches down over Two Crows and cracks his mouth with his fingers.
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THE X-MEN #11, MAY 1965
“I’ve never seen an electronic device register such an extreme condition of panic! Every circuit is strained to the breaking point!”
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North Dark | Chapter 3 of 21
His father’s obsidian necklace, reflecting the low light of the fire in the hearth, rests in the cup of his throat above his breastbone.
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North Dark | Chapter 2 of 21
Treesplitter rolls one of the frozen corpses over and stares at it. Hooded in red, face pierced with whale bone rings, an ornate and delicate knife…
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North Dark | Chapter 1 of 21
He has to close the distance, get within the beast’s range, strike swiftly, and pray to Jesus for the best.
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THE X-MEN # 9, JANUARY 1965
"The resonance from your oversized larynx is virtually deafening!”
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Lane Talbot's personal Substack. Serialized horror fiction, essays, scratch card lottery tips.
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