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    McIlvaine’s Star
    McIlvaine’s Star
    McIlvaine’s Star
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    McIlvaine’s Star

    By August Derleth

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    Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny—or did he?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 30, 2016
    ISBN9781515412458
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      McIlvaine’s Star - August Derleth

      McIlvaine’s Star

      by August Derleth

      © 2017 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Canstock/mscornelius

      Positronic Publishing

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1245-8

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      McIlvaine’s Star

      by August Derleth

      Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny—or did he?

      Call them what you like, said Tex Harrigan. Lost people or strayed, crackpots or warped geniuses—I know enough of them to fill an entire department of queer people. I’ve been a reporter long enough to have run into quite a few of them.

      For example? I said, recognizing Harrigan’s mellowness.

      Take Thaddeus McIlvaine, said Harrigan.

      I never heard of him.

      I suppose not, said Harrigan. "But I knew him. He was an eccentric old fellow who had a modest income—enough to keep up his hobbies, which were three: he played cards and chess at a tavern called Bixby’s on North Clark Street; he was an amateur astronomer; and he had the fixed idea that there was life somewhere

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