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  • I dont know if this is scanned or a pdf file but its a paperback book on horror comics. its called Ghastly Terror: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics

    Comic: Tales too Terrible to Tell Dave 2009

  • There is a series of Gothic romances everyone seems to be reading called The Ghastly Fop, one installment of which mysteriously becomes part of the main story.

    Entropology Menand, Louis 1997

  • Dead-tree-ers - Peter 'Ghastly' Hitchens is 66, Melanie 'Barking' Phillips is 69 and Trevor 'Whatever'' Kavenaugh is 85.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Rachel 2006

  • Dead-tree-ers - Peter 'Ghastly' Hitchens is 66, Melanie 'Barking' Phillips is 69 and Trevor 'Whatever'' Kavenaugh is 85.

    Top bloggery! Rachel 2006

  • That movie became THE GHASTLY ONES, which is also a title I suggested, because 'Ghastly' was a word that hadn't previously been used in the title of a horror movie; I thought it would be effective.

    Sam Sherman on Andy and Ivan 2006

  • That movie became THE GHASTLY ONES, which is also a title I suggested, because 'Ghastly' was a word that hadn't previously been used in the title of a horror movie; I thought it would be effective.

    Archive 2006-09-24 2006

  • [quote: 5abb4e0072 = "Ghastly"] Keen pays the Spotters quarterly.

    COMIXTALK 2009

  • More on Ascot A Magnificent Obsession Tina Gaudoin on Style: A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle "It's still the one meeting of the year where everyone shows up," says Ralph Beckett, a trainer based at Kimpton Down Stables in Hampshire, who has trained horses for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall and will have four horses running this year.

    A Week at the Races William Lyons 2011

  • More on Ascot Tina Gaudoin on Style: A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle A Week at the Races This devotion to the Platonic ideal of the horse's head, rather than to representations of, for example, individual racehorses, readily distinguishes his sculptures from the rather pedestrian, often slightly kitsch, bronzes so often found decorating the houses of "horsey" people.

    A Magnificent Obsession Andrew McKie 2011

  • The curse of human futility also animates "The Good and the Ghastly" Scribner, 277 pages, $25 .

    A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011

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