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The Charm Of 'Spoonbenders' Is No Cheap Trick

Daryl Gregory's new novel spans decades in the life of the Amazing Telemachus Family — a con-man, card-sharping patriarch and his troublesome psychic children, whose powers haven't helped them any.
Source: Liam James Doyle

I wonder how many households of kids growing up in the late '80s and early '90s had their ideas of the supernatural formed by the tall, thin black hardcovers of a Time-Life series called . My family had them, and I don't think my parents could have told you where they came from. They justand .

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