08.10.2025

“Poisonous Plants and Fatal Fungi: The Lore and Lure of Deadly Botanicals” by Sandra Kynes

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Explore humanity's fascination with death through toxic flora and how they have affected history, magic, warfare, art, and more. Sandra Kynes shares sixty detailed profiles divided into five themes, from classic killers to frightful fungi. Each profile includes the plant's history, folklore, and medicinal uses, as well as how it may or may not be used today. Aconite • Birthwort • Buttercup • Daffodil • Deadly Nightshade • Death Cap • Ergot • Foxglove • Funeral Bell • Hemlock • Liberty Cap • Mandrake • Mistletoe • Oleander • Pokeweed • Poppy • Tobacco • Wormwood Dispatching people with poisonous plants isn't just an Agatha Christie plot—it began thousands of years ago and continues to this...>>

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07.10.2025

“Last Rites: Never-before-told stories of a legendary life from the rock ‘n’ roll hellraiser” by Ozzy Osbourne

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*ck no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy. Husband. Father. Grandfather. F*cking Icon. 1948 - 2025 At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. Then: disaster. In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour — and all public life — as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down. Last Rites is...>>

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07.10.2025

“Creepy Embroidery: 20 Gothic Patterns to Capture the Spirit of the Supernatural” by Carrie Violet

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Stitch Beyond the Veil with Heart-Stopping Embroidery Channel the ethereal beauty of death and the afterlife in this stunning collection of beginner-friendly patterns. Inspired by Victorian mourning, bloodthirsty vampires, witches of the woods, and dark moments throughout history, each eerie project only uses a few basic stitches, making it the perfect weekend craft. Invite a vampire into your home with the spellbinding Sylvia; summon a mystical gathering of feline familiars with Coven of Cats; or conjure up the fabled, iconic pomegranate with Persephone’s Descent. You’ll also learn how to bring depth and life to every piece with special techniques such as adding shimmering details through beadwork, creating a haunting effect with loose threads, or...>>

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07.10.2025

“Eerie Whispers: Exploring Canada’s Reluctant Relationship with its Ghostly Lore” by Brian Baker

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Why are Canadians afraid of ghosts? Canada’s paranormal roots run deep. We tell ghost stories around flickering campfires and share unexplained encounters with family and friends. Yet our polite, risk-averse nation often buries these experiences, rarely encouraging them in the places we live or in our arts and entertainment. Fear of stigma and discomfort with the unknown — especially death — keep the supernatural in the shadows. We allow only flirtations with ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, mostly at Halloween. Eerie Whispers explores Canada’s haunted history, drawing from the diverse folklore of its immigrant communities and the traditional stories of Indigenous Peoples. It asks why Canadians, unlike Americans or the British, are reluctant to celebrate this part...>>

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07.10.2025

“The Penguin Book of Cults” by Joseph P. Laycock

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven’s Gate A Penguin Classic The word "cult" conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocalyptic prophecies, ritual sacrifices, sexual perversion, and mass suicide. The Penguin Book of Cults charts the history of our fear of the religious other: the arrest and public execution of thousands of members of an ancient Roman cult devoted to Bacchus, the god of wine; the burning alive of...>>

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