Needful Things Audio Book

DeFlip Side #95: The Book Curse

Welcome everyone. I’m Christopher DeFilippis and this is DeFlip Side.

I have once again experienced the unique pleasure and wonder associated with having my own library. It’s happened to me so many times that it got me thinking: there must be a flip side to my frequent flights library euphoria. If my books are imbued with such joy, there must be some out there on the other end of the spectrum. There must be cursed books. Well, I couldn’t find any spooky Halloween lore regarding cursed books, but my quest did unearth a delightfully morbid and superstitious bit of biblio esoterica all but forgotten today: the book curse. There’s a difference, but let me start at the beginning, with my library epiphany—which, in a manner befitting the season, came about thanks to a book by the biggest name in modern horror.

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