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Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels - cover

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Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels

Katherine Kerestman

Publisher: WordCrafts Press

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Summary

Crumbling Castles 
Ghoulish Graveyards 
Cobwebbed Cathedrals 
The Creepy, the Macabre, the Weird, the Wonderful 
  
Chilling tales of haunting, surreal, and inhuman entities that frighten us have been told by people of all times, and every place. It is the angst and insecurity which come with being human that these horror stories express. It turns out that, in the process of describing these forces and creatures (that which we are not), we are defining by negation our own humanity (that which we are). 
The struggle to understand our nature and our relation to-well, to everything else-is the lot of humans everywhere. All of us share in this struggle to find meaning in a mysterious, indifferent universe. As Creepy Cat travels, albeit usually purely for pleasure, as a humanist she cannot help putting two and two together and realizing that our common fears, aversions, and yearnings can sometimes unite people-and can also drive them into opposing camps. These are the mysteries told by the story-weavers of macabre tales. 
  
Creepy Cat invites you to come along for the journey.
Available since: 11/03/2020.

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