The Kit-Bag Vs Hollywood

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I love scary movies and stories. I follow an instagram page, where they post scary stories, unsolved mysteries, and urban legends. I usually read the stories on my free time. But, one of my all time, favorite thing to read are murders stories. So , I enjoyed reading the “The Kit-Bag” Algernon Blackwood, the story about John Turk the known murderer. I appreciated “The Thing in the Forest” Bernard Capes, it had a good plot twist. How the girl went to talk to the father about the werewolf she thought she saw. Then, discovering that the father was a werewolf it was marvelous. I do not like ghost stories because I do not believe in ghost whatever is dead. I believe that they are at afterworld and they can not come back to this world. So, when

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