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Twelfth Night at Dr. Locrian's Asylum by William Shakespeare and Thomas Ligotti.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye of the Lynx by Carson McCullers and Thomas Ligotti.
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If we are allowed songs, I believe that Clown Puppet on a String won the Neurovision Song Contest in 1967.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being No One by Milan Kundera and Thomas Metzinger
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You guys are cracking me up. A few more:
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And on the reference shelf Chambers of Horrors Dictionary
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Absolute genius, Ben. Thank you! | |||||||||||
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The Doom That Came to Sarnath and the House of the Seven Gables by H. P. Lovecraft and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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I Have a Special Plan for This World as Will and Representation by Thomas Ligotti and Arthur Schopenhauer
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