| 2015-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bad Little Kid |
Stephen King |
|
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story within a story (1), Death row (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), evil spirit (1), vengeance (1)
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| 2013-03-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Down to a Sunless Sea |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
horror (2), second person point of view (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), London, England (1), sailors (1), mother (1), shipwreck (1), cannibalism (1), poetic justice (1)
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| 2010-04-20 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Blockade Billy |
Stephen King |
|
|
non-genre (1), Team manager (1), murderer (1), story within a story (1), Catcher (1), first person point of view (1), New Jersey (1), Big league baseball (1)
|
| 2010-05-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mysterium Tremendum |
Laird Barron |
|
|
horror (2), gay (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), gay characters (1), Washington state (1), dolmen (1), guidebook (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 2008-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Chinese |
|
Cixin Liu |
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|
science fiction (1), China (1), interplanetary travel (1), architecture (1), antigravity (1), Fermi paradox (1), space war (1), love (1), suspended animation (1), alien perspective (1), interstellar travel (1), surveillance (1), deception (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 2008-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
N. |
Stephen King |
|
|
horror (1), ancient evil ones (1), localized flaw in reality (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), obsessive-compulsive disorder (1), case notes (1), psychiatrist (1), Maine (1), contemporary (1), epistolary structure (1), suicide (1)
|
| 2007-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mute |
Stephen King |
|
|
story within a story (1), Catholic confession (1), contemporary (1), Maine (1), divorce (1), embezzlement (1), retribution (1), deaf mute (1)
|
| 2001-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Frankenstein: The Legacy |
Christopher Schildt |
|
|
reanimation (1), contemporary (1), creating life (1), Frankenstein’s research (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 2000-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"The Peach Women of Aa'A" from The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood |
|
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story within a story (1), interstellar war (1), lizard men (1), war with aliens (1), shipwreck (1), plant people (1), romance with aliens (1)
|
| 1996-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shaara and the Sarlacc: The Skiff Guard's Tale |
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes |
|
|
female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Boba Fett (1), Great Pit of Carkoon (1), Mos Eisley (1), rape (1), Sarlacc (1), star wars (1), Jabba the Hutt (1), Imperial stormtroopers (1)
|
| 1995-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Memnoch the Devil |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), religion (1), Satan (1), ghosts (1), televangelists (1), vision (1), new orleans (1), angels (1), demons (1), horror (1), New York City (1), San Francisco (1), jesus (1), Constantinople (1), Crucifixion (1), first person point of view (1), Hell (1), story within a story (1), homoeroticism (1), art (1), antiques (1), sculpture (1), murder (1), tavern (1), Books (1), heaven (1), creation (1), music (1), Jerusalem (1), sex (1), afterlife (1), evolution (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Household Words; or, The Powers-That-Be |
Howard Waldrop |
|
|
alternate universe (1), Charles Dickens (1), story within a story (1), A Christmas Carol (1), industrial power (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Little Sisters of the Apocalypse |
Kit Reed |
|
|
feminism (1), near future (1), strong female characters (1), men go to war (1), cats (1), nuns (1), monk (1), story within a story (1), dying mother (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Unchosen Love |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), alternative family structure (1), love (1), ghosts (1), castle (1), sex (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lasher |
Anne Rice |
|
|
witches (1), horror (1), drugs (1), sex (1), genetics (1), Louisiana (1), story within a story (1), scotland (1), italy (1), murder (1), demons (1)
|
| 1988-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Pack of Lies: Twelve Stories in One |
Geraldine McCaughrean |
|
|
antique shop (1), fantasy (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Solomon's Gift |
Peninnah Schram |
|
|
Judaic (1), folktale (1), King Solomon (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Hoopoe (1), Foolish request (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Vampire Lestat |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), enhanced sensation (1), first person point of view (1), unreliable narrator (1), longevity (1), homoeroticism (1), tuberculosis (1), depression (1), music (1), telekinesis (1), pyrokenesis (1), Paris (1), death (1), religion (1), Roman Empire (1), set in 1700s (1), set in 1800s (1), set in 1900s (1), smell (1), horses (1), Alexandria (1), aristocrats (1), horror (1), story within a story (1), suicide (1), Venice (1), Rome (1), loneliness (1), alcohol (1), quest (1), theater (1), new orleans (1), hunting (1), wolves (1), France (1), humanism (1), philosophy (1), telepathy (1), San Francisco (1), egypt (1)
|
| 1984-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Grimes and the Jailbirds |
A. Bertram Chandler |
|
|
story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), prison planet (1), escape (1), puritanism (1), interstellar commerce (1)
|
| 1984-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet |
Stephen King |
|
|
fantasy (1), story within a story (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), author (1), magazine publishing (1), editor (1), insanity (1), magical beings (1), drunk (1)
|
| 1983-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Out of Africa |
David Drake |
|
|
Congo (1), dinosaur (1), monster (1), swamp (1), white hunter (1), 1900s (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), africa (1), elephant gun (1), hunting trophies (1)
|
| 1982-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
|
|
science fiction (1), waterskiing (1), Maya (1), Yucatan (1), mexico (1), fantasy (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1982-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Breathing Method |
Stephen King |
|
|
horror (1), Christmas (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), unwed pregnancy (1), strong female character (1), social club (1), uncanny setting (1)
|
| 1982-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dim Rumble |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), spelunking (1), seismology (1), story within a story (1), memory erasure (1), alien as demon (1)
|
| 1981-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Byzantium Endures |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
Ukraine (1), Jews (1), cocaine (1), engineer (1), Russian revolution (1), St. Petersburg (1), WWI (1), antisemitism (1), 1900s (1), memoir (1), unreliable narrator (1), autobiography (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), historical fiction (1), Kiev (1), Odessa (1), cossacks (1)
|
| 1981-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands |
Stephen King |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), story within a story (1), curse (1), private club (1), india (1)
|
| 1981-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
VALIS |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), religion (1), science fiction (1), metaphysic (1), story within a story (1), time distortion (1), alternate history (1), insanity (1), lasers (1), into-opera (1), into-music (1)
|
| 1980-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Way Station |
Stephen King |
|
|
quest (1), wasteland (1), new yorker (1), abraham and isaac (1), treachery (1), flashback (1), dualistic cosmology (1), resurrection (1), parallel universe (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1980-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
When the Clock Strikes |
Tanith Lee |
|
|
retold fairy tales (1), Cinderella (1), dark fantasy (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), satanism (1), revenge (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fear Shouter |
Jay Williams |
|
|
twist ending (1), dangerous animals (1), interstellar travel (1), story within a story (1), space cadets (1), A rose by any other name (1)
|
| 1978-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
What Dreams May Come |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
dark fantasy (1), Hell (1), afterlife (1), into-movie (1), automatic writing (1), heaven (1), suicide (1), reincarnation (1), near-death experience (1), Orpheus myth (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), found manuscript (1), love (1), family (1), metaphysics (1)
|
| 1976-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Alteration |
Kingsley Amis |
|
|
alternate history (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), recursive sf (NESFA index) (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), story within a story (1), england (1), theocracy (1), eunuchs (1), music (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1970-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
near future (1), animal-human hybrids (1), genetic engineering (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1970-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
science fiction (1), nostalgia (1), metafiction (1), drug addiction (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1968-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Baa Baa Blocksheep |
M. John Harrison |
|
|
story within a story (1), sheep (1), contemporary (1), medical studies on animals (1)
|
| 1962-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Man in the High Castle |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
alternate history (6), racism (1), set in 1960s (1), international politics (1), Yin and Yang (1), resistance (1), America (1), evil (1), creativity (1), jewelry (1), Japan (1), slavery (1), San Francisco (1), story within a story (1), I Ching (1), Hitler Wins (1), into-tv (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), nazis (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
|
| 1954-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Space-Crime Continuum |
H. F. Ellis |
|
|
detective story (1), authorship (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), murder mystery (1), science fiction (1), humor (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
John Pettigrew's Mirror |
Ruth Manning-Sanders |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), contemporary (1), seals (1), magic mirror (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Miss Mountain |
Philippa Pearce |
|
|
story within a story (1), contemporary (1), children (1), grandmother (1), cruel aunt (1), kind aunt (1)
|
| 1949-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hide and Seek |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
hard sf (1), interplanetary travel (1), space combat (1), first person (1), Phobos (1), science fiction (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
|
|
dystopia (3), social criticism (2), science fiction (2), near future (2), horror (2), Newspeak (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-ballet (1), endless war (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), torture (1), london (1), neologisms (1), story within a story (1), history rewritten (1), surveillance state (1), British dystopia (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
|
| 1938-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cavern |
Gertrude Gordon and Manly Wade Wellman |
|
|
first person point of view (1), hippopotamus (1), africa (1), fortune tellers (1), fate (1), colonial era (1), explorer (1), Englishmen (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1934-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Nightmare Road |
Florence Crow |
|
|
white hair (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Hartz Mountains (1), halloween (1), cross (1), contemporary (1), Satanic creatures (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), hiking (1)
|
| 1929-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Warning Wings |
Arlton Eadie |
|
|
story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), moth (1), Atlantic Ocean (1), rescue (1), ship’s captain (1), fantasy (1), sailor's yarn (1)
|
| 1928-12-21 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hanging of Alfred Wadham |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
faith (1), first person point of view (1), seance (1), Catholic confession (1), murder (1), wrongful conviction (1), story within a story (1), ghost (1), retribution (1)
|
| 1928-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Vengeance of Nitocris |
Tennessee Williams |
|
|
mummies (1), suicide (1), mass murder (1), vengeance (1), pharaoh (1), ancient egypt (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1927-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Church Stove at Raebrudafisk |
G. Appleby Terrill |
|
|
European country (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), horror (1), stove (1), blindness (1), contemporary (1), murder (1), revenge (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1926-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mrs. Lunt |
Hugh Walpole |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), author (1), literary critic (1), Cornwall (1), Uxoricide (1), vengeance (1), ghosts (1), horror (1)
|
| 1926-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Who Was Saved |
B. W. Sliney |
|
|
horror (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), shipwreck (1), contemporary (1), sea monster (1), irony (1), Pacific Ocean (1)
|
| 1925-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lukundoo |
Edward Lucas White |
|
|
horror (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), africa (1), British (1), explorers (1), curse (1), shaman (1)
|
| 1924-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Corstophine |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Yorkshire (1), precognition (1)
|
| 1923-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Inscrutable Decrees |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), medium (1), sadism (1)
|
| 1923-09-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pool of the Stone God |
A. Merritt |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), explorer (1), shipwreck (1), South Pacific (1), stone idol (1), vampirism (1)
|
| 1922-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Tube |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
fantasy (1), Time (1), contemporary (1), London Tube (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), precognition (1), infidelity (1), suicide (1), fatalism (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1920-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Egg |
Sherwood Anderson |
|
|
Ohio (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), chicken farm (1), restaurant (1), early 20th century (1), failure (1), desperation (1), family (1), egg (1)
|
| 1915-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Marble Hands |
Bernard Capes |
|
|
story within a story (1), vanity (1), hands (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), cemetery (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Between the Lights |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Christmas (1), england (1), nonhumans (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Kirk Spook |
E. G. Swain |
|
|
assistance (1), sympathy (1), church (1), contemporary (1), ghost (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Terror by Night |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), london (1), Davos (1), consumption (1), psychic messages (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Thing in the Hall |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), elemental (1), hyptonism (1), seance (1), story within a story (1), horror (1)
|
| 1910-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Outside the Door |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), spiritualism (1), story within a story (1), haunted house (1)
|
| 1907-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Beyond the Wall |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
|
Librivox (1), regret (1), classism (1), infatuation (1), neighbor (1), San Francisco (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), guilt (1)
|
| 1906-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bus-Conductor |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
ghosts (2), first person point of view (1), precognition (1), bus driver (1), hearse (1), london (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1905-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
A Chapter of the Psalms |
|
|
|
story within a story (1), fantasy (1), Jews (1), 19th century (1), village (1), ability to perceive good or bad souls (1), Lilith (1), demons (1), demonic wedding (1)
|
| 1904-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Count Magnus |
M. R. James |
|
|
Librivox (1), vampires (1), first person point of view (1), sweden (1), story within a story (1), found manuscript (1), living dead (1), horror (1), old church (1)
|
| 1904-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
Revelation; or, the Story of the Billy Goat |
|
|
|
story within a story (1), fantasy (1), billy goat (1), holy site (1), touching Heaven (1), Jews (1), 18th century (1), Ukraine (1), compassion (1), sustenance (1), snuffboxes (1), tragedy of the commons (1), irony (1)
|
| 1902-05-20 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Der violette Tod |
Gustav Meyrink |
|
|
story within a story (1), killing shout (1), deafness (1), inaccessible city (1), fantasy (1), black magic (1), Englishmen (1), tibet (1), india (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1901-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Purple Cloud |
M. P. Shiel |
|
|
weird (1), Librivox (1), religious faith (1), feral child (1), love (1), last man on Earth (1), postapocalyptic (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), manichean (1), Arctic exploration (1), near future (1), poison (1), murder (1), horror (1), morals (1)
|
| 1895-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
|
|
|
|
19th century (1), Poland (1), Jews (1), fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), philosophy (1), poverty (1), living dead (1), World of Illusions (1), social commentary (1)
|
| 1893-12-07 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Damned Thing |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
|
Librivox (1), horror (1), into-tv (1), Masters of Horror (1), invisibility (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), coroner's inquest (1), Western US (1)
|
| 1892-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Ghost Story |
Jerome K. Jerome |
|
|
Librivox (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), revenge (1), skeleton (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1891-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Finest Story in the World |
Rudyard Kipling |
|
|
fantasy (2), story within a story (1), reincarnation (1), Storyteller (1), england (1)
|
| 1891-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Haunted Mill |
Jerome K. Jerome |
|
|
Librivox (1), Christmas Eve (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), haunted mill (1), ghost (1), miser (1), hidden treasure (1), humorous (1)
|
| 1889-07-14 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boarded Window |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
|
horror (1), Librivox (1), cats (1), first person point of view (1), Ohio (1), pioneer (1), recluse (1), log cabin (1), death (1), gothic (1), panther (1), wife (1), story within a story (1), grief (1), burial preparations (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1887-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Goophered Grapevine |
Charles W. Chesnutt |
|
|
sharp business dealings (1), dialect (1), magic (1), vineyard (1), slavery (1), african-american protagonist (1), story within a story (1), post-Civil War (1), North Carolina (1), curse (1)
|
| 1885-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tale of the Trader and the Jinni |
Sir Richard Francis Burton |
|
|
storytelling (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1884-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Body Snatcher |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
|
|
Librivox (1), corpses thieves (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1843-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Christmas Banquet |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
|
|
fantasy (1), Christmas (1), philosophy (1), story within a story (1), misery (1), banquet (1), lack of emotion (1)
|
| 1841-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
|
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
science fiction (1), sea (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Norway (1), mountain climbing (1), shipwreck (1), [NESFA Core Reading List] (1), terror tale (1)
|
| 1837-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lawyer and the Ghost |
Charles Dickens |
|
|
haunted house (1), logic (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1835-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Berenice—A Tale |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
Librivox (1), monomania (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), insanity (1), catatonia (1), obsession (1), teeth (1), horror (1), unreliable narrator (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1824-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Adventure of My Aunt |
Washington Irving |
|
|
thief (1), animated portrait (1), spooky old house (1), widow (1), strong female characters (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1824-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Adventure of the German Student |
Washington Irving |
|
|
story within a story (1), student (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), French revolution (1), guillotine (1), damsel in distress (1), infatuation (1), Paris (1), dream girl (1)
|
| 1824-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bold Dragoon |
Washington Irving |
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first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Bruges (1), inn (1), animated furniture (1), dragoon (1)
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