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Darkside (1998)

1998 · Tom Becker · 368 pages · United States of America

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Be prepared for a chilling excursion to the dark side of fiction through the most frightening places that linger just beyond the imagination. With its haunting tales of dread--30 of them--that will stab an icy shaft of fear straight into one's very soul, this is modern macabre fiction at its very best.

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A 1998 title built around Adventure, Fantasy and Fiction. Directed by Tom Becker.

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