The Breaker - series. Books 1 - 3:

 

The Breaker

ISBN: 9781656281517

Description:

How do you know the one you love won’t hurt you?

Or even try to kill you?
In many cases … you don’t.

How do we choose our path and purpose in life?

What makes us who we are?
When Seth Egan starts working as a private detective, he knows he’ll make enemies.
It goes with the territory.
As Seth works on a murder case and hunts down the killers, he becomes the target.
Some people have no conscience, shame, empathy, or remorse.
To get their own way, to get what they want, to take everything, they will do anything.
Even murder.
In the end, they will drag you down to hell with them.
Sometimes, our enemies are those closest to us.

Amazon link:

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Bad Blood

ISBN: 9798682203192

Description:

No one is paying Seth Egan for his latest case.

He keeps this one unofficial.

Pro bono publico.

Off the books.

For him, this one is personal.

A matter of bad blood.

A woman with a grudge of her own leads Seth to a place where people vanish without trace.

Money is the motive.

Greed is the motivator.

Scores that can only be settled in blood.

A dark underworld of illegal gambling, prostitution, drugs, violence and murder.

Amazon link:

 

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Mall Maze

ISBN: 9798729917235

Description:

Friday the 13th.

Unlucky for many.

What should have been a routine adultery case ends with Seth Egan fighting for his life.

Cut off from the world.

With no way to call for help.

Trapped in a place where the walls are coming down around him.

Seth is running out of places to hide.

As chaos reigns and the city burns … the hunters close in.

Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09244XVYW/

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Themes:

Abuse by proxy, Adultery, C-PTSD, crime, detective, domestic abuse, enabler, flying monkey, gaslighting, hardboiled, heist, infidelity, murder, narcissism, narcissist, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, personality disorder, psychopath, sociopath, suspense, thriller, vigilante, violence.

Books available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle.

A percentage from sales of my books is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

Slipped Masks:

Slipped Masks

ISBN: 9781719330640

Description:

I can’t call you because if he hears me talking on the phone he’ll hit me again. He scares me. I know sooner or later he’s going to kill me. I’ll text you again when I can. I love you, Casey. I’ll spend the rest of our lives proving to you how much I love you. Please come. Please save me …

With only text messages to guide him, Casey Byrne is on the hunt, racing across five states to save his ex-girlfriend, Madison.

Casey loves Madison deeply and wants desperately to save her life and rekindle their relationship.

But the closer he gets to her, the more surreal his journey becomes as the dead bodies pile up in his wake.

Clinical Lycanthropy: the delusion that a human can physically transform into a wolf.

If you were insane, would you know it?

How would you see the world if you were convinced you could transform into a wolf?

The hunter … and the hunted.

Slipped Masks is a dark neo-noir thriller about how the need for love and companionship becomes twisted into obsession, possession, jealousy, violence and murder.

A horrifying portrait of Clinical Lycanthropy.

Amazon link:

https://t.co/2Gwb135V3m

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Themes:

Sociopathy, narcissistic abuse, personality disorder, Clinical Lycanthropy, crime, murder.

Book available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle.

A percentage from sales of this book is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

Born on this day – David Goodis:

David Goodis

Writer

March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967

Credits:

Retreat from Oblivion (1939); Dark Passage (1946); Behold This Woman (1947); Nightfall / Missing Believed Murdered / The Dark Chase / Convicted (1947); Of Missing Persons (1950); Cassidy's Girl (1951); Of Tender Sin (1952); Street of the Lost (1952); The Burglar (1953); The Moon in the Gutter (1953); Black Friday (1954); The Blonde on the Street Corner (1954); Street of No Return (1954); The Wounded and the Slain (1955); Down There / Shoot the Piano Player (1956); Fire in the Flesh (1957); Night Squad (1961); Somebody's Done For (1967); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996).

Born on this day – John Steinbeck:

John Steinbeck

Writer

February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

Credits:

Books:

Burning Bright (1950); Cannery Row (1945); Cup of Gold (1929); East of Eden (1952); Five Best Sellers (1989); In Dubious Battle (1936); Nothing So Monstrous (1936); Of Mice and Men (1937); Of Mice and Men and Short Stories (1937); Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (1978); Sweet Thursday (1954); The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Gift (1992); The Grapes of Wrath (1939); The Long Valley (1938); The Moon Is Down (1942); The Moon Is Down and Short Stories (1942); The Pastures of Heaven (1932); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1933); The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (1953); The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957); The Vigilante (2018); The Wayward Bus (1947); The Winter of Our Discontent (1961); To A God Unknown (1933); Tortilla Flat (1935); Viva Zapata (1975); Zapata (1993).

Movies and television:

A Medal for Benny (1945); A Pérola (1967); A Scene from 'Of Mice and Men' (2020); ABC News Close-Up (1961); Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat: The Theater of War (2005); American Playhouse (1991); Anthropoi kai pontikia (1977); Back in Time (2014); Biography (1999); Breakfast (2021); Cannery Row (1982); Chubby (1972); Curtain Call (1952); Der Rattenkönig (2002); Des souris et des hommes (1971 / 1976); East of Eden (1955 / 1981 / 2026); East of Eden: Art in Search of Life (2005); Fareler ve Insanlar (1975); Film Önü / Arkasi (2019); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Grapes (2017); Grapes of Wrath: The Ghost of Modern America (2019); Helmi (1962); Hiiriä ja ihmisiä (1977); I riassuntini (2018); Ikimize bir dünya (1962); Immortals (2017); In Dubious Battle (2016); Invitation au voyage (2021); Laser Grapes of Space Wrath (2008); Lement a Hold (1992); Lifeboat (1944); Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954); Livsflammen (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Mahalle arkadaslari (1961); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mooso-the Mouse (2019); Möss och människor (1977); Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); O. Henry's Full House (1952); Of Mice and Men (1939 / 1968 / 1981 / 1992 / 2010 / 2014); Omnibus (1954); Ondu Muthina Kathe (1987); Play of the Week (1959); Producers' Showcase (1955); Skids (2016); Studio One (1956); Teatr Polskiego Radia (2015); Television Theater (1957); The English Programme (1988); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Grapes of Wrath: We Shall Overcome (2015); The Harness (1971); The Innocents (2022); The Log from the Sea of Cortez (2025); The Moon Is Down (1943); The Pearl (1947 / 1948 / 2004); The Red Pony (1949 / 1973); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); The Wayward Bus (1957); The Winter of Our Discontent (1983); To theatro tis Defteras (1977); Tortilla Flat (1942); Travels with Charley (1968); TV de Vanguarda (1953–1963); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995); Viva Zapata! (1952); Von Mäusen und Menschen (1968); World in Action (1968).

Born on this day – Anthony Burgess:

Anthony Burgess

Writer

February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); 99 Novels (1984); A Clockwork Orange (1962); 1985 (1978); A Clockwork Orange 2004 (1990); A Dead Man in Deptford (1993); A Long Trip to Teatime (1976); A Mouthful of Air (1992); A Vision of Battlements (1965); Abba Abba (1977); Any Old Iron (1989); Beard’s Roman Women (1976); Beds in the East (1959); Blooms of Dublin (1986); But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen? (1986); Byrne (1995); Coaching Days of England (1966); Devil of a State (1961); Earthly Powers (1980); Enderby (1968); Enderby Outside (1968); Enderby’s Dark Lady (1984); Ernest Hemingway and His World (1978); Flame into Being (1985); Future Imperfect (1994); Here Comes Everybody (1965); Homage To Qwert Yuiop (1986); Honey for the Bears (1963); Inside Mr. Enderby (1963); Joysprick (1973); Language Made Plain (1964); Little Wilson and Big God (1987); Man of Nazareth (1979); MF (1971); Moses (1976); Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991); Napoleon Symphony (1974); New York (1976); Nothing like the Sun (1964); Oberon Old and New (1985); On Going to Bed (1982); On Mozart (1991); One Hand Clapping (1961); One Man’s Chorus (1998); Shakespeare (1970); Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange (1972); The Age of the Grand Tour (1967); The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage (2003); The Clockwork Testament (1974); The Devil’s Mode (1989); The Doctor is Sick (1960); The End of the World News (1982); The Enemy in the Blanket (1957); The Eve of Saint Venus (1964); The Heritage of British Literature (1983); The Kingdom of the Wicked (1980); The Novel Now (1967); The Pianoplayers (1986); The Right to an Answer (1960); The Wanting Seed (1956); The Worm and the Ring (1961); The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); This Man & Music (1982); Time for a Tiger (1956); Tremor of Intent (1966); Two Tales of the Future (1980); You’ve Had Your Time (1990).

Movies and television:

90 Minutes Live (1978); 100 Years of Ulysses (2022); 1984: A Personal View of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' (1983); A Clockwork Orange (1971 / 2007); À propos de 'La guerre du feu' (1981); A.D. (1985); After Dark (1988); An Examination of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1972); Anno Domini (1975); Apostrophes (1979–1989); Arena (1993); Artur och Maria (1992); Bains de minuit (1988); Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize (2018); Call My Bluff (1967–1968); Camera Three (1972–1973); C'est à lire (1984); Cities (1979); Cyrano de Bergerac (1985 / 1990); Firing Line (1972); Frank Delaney (1983); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1982); Front Row (2018); Great Performances (2008); I riassuntini (2018); Il était une fois... (2011); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2022); Le cannabis - Une plante entre le bien et le mal (1996); Le grand échiquier (1988); Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake, with Anthony Burgess (1973); Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches (1989); Make It New - a portrait of Anthony Burgess (1984); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Muy personal (1988); Neanderthal (2000); Omnibus (1968); Orange mécanique, les rouages de la violence (2023); Ouvrez les guillemets (1973); Quest for Fire (1981); Read All About It (1977); Rencontre au sommet: Anthony Burgess/Isaac Bashevis Singer (1997); Review (1972); Saturday Night Clive (1990); Saturday Review (1985–1987); Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979–1980); Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange (2000); Take It or Leave It (1964–1967); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); The Book Game (1982–1983); The Book Programme (1974–1980); The Burgess Variations (1999); The English Programme (1985); The Late Show (1989); The Levin Interviews (1981); The Quest for Fire Adventure (1982); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The South Bank Show (1978–1985); The Talk Show with Clive James (1990); Today (1978); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Videobook: A Clockwork Orange (2023); Vinyl (1965); Wogan (1985–1990); Word for Word (1978); Writers and Places (1981).

Born on this day – Anaïs Nin:

Anaïs Nin

Writer

February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977

Born on this day – Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens

Writer

February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

Credits:

Books:

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); A Child’s History of England (1854); A Christmas Carol (1843); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); A Terribly Strange Bed (1852); After Dark (1856); Alfred Hitchcock’s Fatal Attractions (1983); An Accursed Race (1855); Barnaby Rudge (1841); Bessy’s Troubles at Home (1852); Black and White (2015); Bleak House (1853); Bran (2015); Children’s Christmas Stories and Poems (1995); Chilling Ghost Stories (2015); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Company Manners (2018); Cousin Phyllis (1864); David Copperfield (1850); Disappearances (1851); Doctor Marigold (1866); Dombey and Son (1848); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve (2015); French Life (1864); George Silverman’s Explanation (1868); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Expectations (1861); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror (1993); Hard Times (1854); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Hunted Down (2016); John Jago’s Ghost (1874); Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras (1855); Little Dorrit (1855); Lizzie Leigh (1850); London Stories (2013); Master Humphrey’s Clock (1841); Master Humphrey’s Clock, Volume 2 (1841); Miss Gwilt (1880); Miss or Mrs.? (1873); Morton Hall (2004); Mr. Harrison’s Confessions (1851); Mr. Wray’s Cash Box (1852); Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley’s Miscellany (1880); My French Master (2004); My Lady’s Money (1879); No Thoroughfare (1867); No Thoroughfare (1867); Old Curiosity Shop (1841); Our Mutual Friend (1865); Reprinted Pieces (1861); Right at Last (1858); Round the Christmas Fire (2013); Select Short Fiction (1976); Sexton’s Hero (1847); Sights A-Foot (1887); Six Weeks at Heppenheim (2004); Sketches by Boz (1836); Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth (2002); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838); The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (1855); The Battle of Life (1846); The Black Veil (1836); The Cauldron of Oil (1861); The Chimes (1844); The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1866); The Cricket on the Hearth (1845); The Crooked Branch (2004); The Dead Alive (1873); The Doom of the Griffiths (1858); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Dream Woman (1855); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Half-Brothers (1859); The Hanged Man’s Bride (1857); The Haunted Hotel (1879); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848); The Heart of John Middleton (2004); The Holly Tree Inn (1850); The Last Stage Coachman (1843); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Magic Fishbone (1867); The Manchester Marriage (1858); The Moorland Cottage (1850); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); The Nun’s Story of Gabriel’s Marriage (1853); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Phantom Coach (2014); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Poor Clare (1856); The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (1858); The Queen of Hearts (1859); The Scholar’s Story (2016); The Shah’s English Gardener (1852); The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984); The Squire’s Story (1855); The Well of Pen Morfa (2004); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The World’s Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Yellow Mask (1887); Three Ghost Stories (1998); Thrillers (1994); To Be Read at Dusk (1852); Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses (2020); Who Killed Zebedee? (1880); Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (2002); World’s Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Christmas Carol - A Dramatic Reading (2014); A Christmas Carol - ITS Troupe 7825 (2020); A Christmas Carol (1908 / 1910 / 1914 / 1923 / 1938 / 1943 / 1947 / 1950 / 1951 / 1960 / 1962 / 1969 / 1971 / 1977 / 1981 / 1982 / 1984 / 1994 / 1997 / 1999 / 2000 / 2009 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020); A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre (1979); A Christmas Carol: 50th Anniversary (2015); A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022); A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play (2020); A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale (2006); A Christmas Carol: The Concert (2013); A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004); A Dark Shadows Christmas Carol (2021); A Dickens of a Time (2020); A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994); A Frozen Christmas Carol (2018); A Ghost Story for Christmas (1976); A Knight for a Night (1909); A Loja de Antigüidades (1963); A Message from Mars (1903); A Modern Christmas Carol (2020); A Modern Oliver Twist (1906); A Moeda de Ouro (1965); A Nintendo Christmas Carol (2014); A Tale of Two Cities (1907 / 1911 / 1917 / 1922 / 1935 / 1957 / 1958 / 1965 / 1980 / 1984 / 1989); A Tale of Two Cities: In Concert (2009); A VHS Christmas Carol (2020); A Yorkshire School (1910); A Youtube Carol (2017); Adventures from the Book of Virtues (2000); Agalia agapis 3 (2024); Alta comedia (1993); An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998); An American Christmas Carol (1979); An Evening of Dickens 'Round the Fire... A Christmas Carol (2018); Armchair Theatre (1959); As Grandes Esperanças (1961); Atop the Fourth Wall (2009); Aus dem Bücherschrank geholt (1960); Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006); Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (1994); Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008); Bardell Against Pickwick (1938 / 1946); Barnaby Rudge (1911 / 1915 / 1960); Beavis and Butt-Head / Segment: Huh-Huh-Humbug (1995); Bijli (1979); Biography (1996); Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988); Bleak House (1920 / 1922 / 1926 / 1959 / 2005); Boozoo's Ghosts (2020); Boy Called Twist (2004); Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol (1992); Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979); Camera Three (1956–1961); Canto di Natale (2010 / 2020); Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta (2022); Carol (2024); Carol for Another Christmas (1964); Carovná rybí kosticka (1984); CBC Show of the Week (1964); Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2020); Charles Dickens's England (2009); Charles Laughton (1952); Christmas Carol (1984); Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001); Christmas Carole (1966); Christmas Glory 2000 (2000); Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol (2013); Christmas Visitations (2015); CineRama (2015); Computer Boy (2015); Conto de Natal (1997); Creepy As Fuck (2020); Cricket on the Hearth (1967); David Copperfield (1911 / 1913 / 1922 / 1935 / 1956 / 1958 / 1965–1966 / 1966 / 1970 / 1974–1975 / 1983 / 1986 / 1993 / 1999 / 2000 / 2009); Death and Rebirth of a Stingy Man (2018); Death of Nancy Sykes (1897); Detective (1969); Dickensian (2015–2016); Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1955); Die Geheimnisse von London - Die Tragödie eines Kindes (1920); Die Glocken von London (1962); Die Pickwickier (1968); Doctors (2016); Dolly Varden (1906 / 1913); Dombais et fils (2007); Dombey & Son (1983); Dombey and Son (1919 / 1969); Dombi i syn (1974); Ebenezer (1998 / 2020); Ebenezer Scrooge (2018); Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa (1955); Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa oder Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest (1960); El guardavías (2004); Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens (1951 / 1983); Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001); Eugene Wrayburn (1911); Every Day Is Christmas (2018); Fagin (1922); Family Theatre (1958); Feliz navidad mama (2002); Festival (1961); Festival of Family Classics (1972); Fireside Reading of A Christmas Carol (2022); Fireside Theatre (1951); Fitoor (2016); Foley Marra Studios Presents (2020); Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens (1959); Gabriel Grub (1904); Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013); General Electric Theater (1957); George Burns Comedy Week (1985); Ghost Stories (1987); Going Live! (1990); Great Expectations (1917 / 1934 / 1946 / 1959 / 1967 / 1971 / 1974 / 1981 / 1983 / 1989 / 1998 / 1999 / 2011 / 2013 / 2023); Great Expectations US Poster (2012); Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1987); Grimaldi: The Funniest Man in the World (2017); Hans Christian Andersen - Im Schatten der Märchen (2023); Hard Times (1915 / 1977 / 1988 / 1994); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Hora once (1970–1972); House of Mouse / Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001); How Bella Was Won (1911); How Does It End? (1952); Hristougenniatiki istoria (2020); Hristougenniatiki metamorfosi (2024); Humphrey and Renshaw - Warning: May Contain Nuts (2007); I riassuntini (2018); Il circolo Pickwick (1968); Il grillo del focolare (1963); In Love With... (2011–2012); ITV Television Playhouse (1960–1963); Jackanory (1966–1976); Jo the Crossing Sweeper (1910 / 1918); John Grin's Christmas (1986); Kapetan Smelo srce (1963); Karácsonyi ének (1964); Karl Wells: A Christmas Carol (2021); Karroll's Christmas (2004); Klein Doortje (1917); Kraft Theatre (1952); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1948); La bottega dell'antiquario (1921); Las grandes novellas (1971); Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958); Le grillon du foyer (1922 / 1933 / 1972); Le Noël de M. Scrooge (2017); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961–1965); Legends & Oddities (2004); Les aventures de Monsieur Pickwick (1964–1965); Les grandes espérances (1968); Les nouvelles aventures d'Oliver Twist (1997–1998); Let's Make a Musical (1977); Lille Dorrit (1924); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Little Dorrit (1913 / 1920 / 1934 / 1987 / 2008); Little Emily (1911); Little Nell (1979–1980); Louder with Crowder (2017); Love and the Law (1910); Luigi0730 (2011); Magwitch (2012); Malá Dorritka (1967); Martin Chuzzlewit (1912 / 1914 / 1964 / 1994); Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985); Matinee Theatre (1956); Megalo tileoptiko theama (1975); Mia hristougenniatiki istoria (2020); Micawber (2001–2002); Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983); Mine yndlingsbøger (1970); Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962); Mister Scrooge (1967); Monodrama Theater (1953); Monsters (1990); Mr. Bumble the Beadle (1898); Mr. Horatio Sparkins (1913); Mr. Pickwick in a Double Bedded Room (1913); Mr. Pickwick's Christmas at Wardle's (1901); Mr. Pickwick's Predicament (1912); Mr. Quilp (1975); Mrs. Corney Makes Tea (1913); Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgers (1912); Ms. Scrooge (1997); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); Nancy (1922); Natale a casa Deejay - A Christmas Carol (2004); Nature Cat (2019); New Looney Tunes (2020); Nicholas Nickleby (1903 / 1912 / 1957 / 1968 / 1977 / 1985 / 2002); Nieznana opowiesc wigilijna (2000); Non è mai troppo tardi (1953); Novela (1965–1976); Nuestro amigo el libro (1964); O Grilo da Lareira (1960); O Rolfi ston Peiraia No. 2 (2017); O Velho Scrooge (1963); Old Scrooge (1913); Oliver & Company (1988); Oliver Touist (1997); Oliver Twink (2007); Oliver Twist (1907 / 1909 / 1910 / 1911 / 1912 / 1916 / 1922 / 1933 / 1948 / 1955 / 1960 / 1962 / 1974 / 1982 / 1985 / 1997 / 1999 / 2005 / 2007 / 2022 / 2023); Oliver Twist, Jr. (1921); Oliver! (1968 / 2014); Olivia Twist (2014); Omnibus (1952–1953); One Word Christmas Carol (2021); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Os irmãos Dombey (1959); Our Mutual Friend (1958–1959 / 1976 / 1998); Ouvrez les guillemets (2017); Pan Pickwick (1987); Perry Mason (1966); Pickwick (1969); Pickwick Papers (1985); Pickwick Versus Bardell (1913); Pikvikskiy klub (1986); Ponds Theater (1953); Príbeh se starou lenoskou (1972); Radio Story Hour (2024); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2013–2016); Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978); Rich Man's Folly (1931); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Santa World: Christmas Bedtime Stories (2018); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2024); Scrooge (1922 / 1928 / 1935 / 1970 / 1978); Scrooge and Marley (2001); Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022); Scrooge: A Christmas Sarah (1990); Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost (1901); Scrooged (1988); Shadows at the Door (2019); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Shoestring Theatre (1960); Shower of Stars (1954–1955); Siesta Z (2017); Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979); Smike! (1973); Society of Radio Theatre (2022); South Park (2000); Spirited (2022); Starozitníkuv krám (1980); Store forventninger (1922); Story of the Christmas Carol (1955); Storyboard (1989); Sunday Story (1963); Suspense (1952–1953 / 2019); Sverchok na pechi (1915); Tayna Edvina Druda (1980); Television Theater (1958–1998); Tense Moments from Great Plays / Segment: Bleak House (1922); Tense Moments with Great Authors / Segments: Nancy / Fagin / Scrooge / A Tale of Two Cities (1922); The Abridged Works of Charles Dickens (2016); The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1987); The Alcoa Hour (1955–1956); The Angry Video Game Nerd (2007); The Bible: The Amazing Book (1988); The Boy and the Convict (1909); The Charlie Drake Show (1960); The Chimes (1914 / 1999); The Christmas Carol (1949); The Cricket on the Hearth (1909 / 1914 / 1923); The Danny Thomas Hour (1967); The Death of Poor Joe (1901); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958–1959); The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist (1980); The Gospel According to Scrooge (1983); The Gumby Show (1960); The Haunted Man (2022); The Jetsons (1985); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 / 1982 / 2001); The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012); The Lonely Man (2014); The Magic Fishbone (1955); The Magic of Charles Dickens (1967); The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017); The Merry Christmas (1955); The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992); The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2000); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1909 / 1914 / 1960 / 1993 / 2012); The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story (1992); The Old Curiosity Shop (1909 / 1911 / 1912 / 1913 / 1921 / 1934 / 1962–1963 / 1979–1980 / 1984 / 1995 / 2007); The Only Way (1925 / 1948); The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019); The Pickwick Papers (1913 / 1952–1953 / 1985); The Pickwick Papers / Part Three (1913); The Picture of Dorian Gray (2023); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Reader (2008); The Real Ghostbusters (1986); The Right to Be Happy (1916); The Signal Man (2016); The Signal Man by Charles Dickens (2022); The Signalman (2015); The Six Million Dollar Man (1976); The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol (2011); The Stingiest Man in Town (1978); The Tale of Gabriel Grub (2004); The Virtue of Rags (1912); Thomas & Friends (1986); Tohtoritehtaan saituri ja yliopistokaupungin valot (2018); Twist (2003 / 2021); Twist Olivér (1919); Un Cuento de Navidad (2020); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); VeggieTales: An Easter Carol (2004); VHS Christmas Carol: Live! (2022); VHS Christmas Carols (2023 / 2024); Vor fælles Ven (1921); Wagon Train (1960); Wishbone (1995–1997); Xena: Warrior Princess (1996); Yellow River (2020); Your Show Time (1949); Zapiski Pikvikskogo kluba (1972).

Born on this day – James Dickey:

James Dickey

Writer

Actor

February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997

Credits:

Books:

Alnilam (1987); Buckdancer's Choice (1965); Deliverance (1970); Drownings (1981); For a Time and Place (1983); From the Green Horseshoe (1987); Night Hurdling (1983); Sorties (1971); The Eagle's Mile (1981); The Selected Poems (1979); The Zodiac (1976); To the White Sea (1993).

Movies:

The Call of the Wild (1976); Deliverance (1972).

Born on this day – Frank De Felitta:

Frank De Felitta

Author

Director

Producer

Pilot

August 3, 1921 – March 29, 2016

Credits:

Books:

A Swift Death To Critics (2000); Audrey Rose (1975); For Love of Audrey Rose (1982); Funeral March / aka Funeral March of the Marionettes (1990); Golgotha Falls (1984); Oktoberfest (1973); Sea Trial (1980); The Entity (1978).

Movies and television:

Adventure (1954); Anzio (1968); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1954); Assignment: Underwater (1960–1961); Audrey Rose (1977); Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012); Bubba Didn't Do It!: 30 Years of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (2011); Cafe Society (1995); California's Most Haunted (2003); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1953–1954); Danger (1954–1955); Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Dateline NBC / Segment: Finding Booker's Place (2012); Doberman Patrol (1973); El retorno de Ana Rosa (1982); Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Killer in the Mirror (1986); Le Lab Secret (2016); Matinee Theatre (1957); Medallion Theatre (1953); Rich and Famous (1981); Scissors (1991); Sightings: Ghosts (1992); Suspense (1954); Tales of Tomorrow (1952–1953); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Entity (1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Penthouse (1989); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Savage Is Loose (1974); The Stately Ghosts of England (1965); The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979); Two Family House (2000); Windows (1955); Witchcraft (1961); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953); Z.P.G. (1972).

Born on this day – Anne Frank:

Anne Frank

Writer

June 12, 1929 – March 12, 1945

Credits:

Book:

The Diary, aka Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and The Diary of Anne Frank (1948).

Movies and television:

1945: 12 Städte, 12 Schicksale (2015); 1945: Amsterdam - Der Völkermord (2015); 60 Minutes (2022); A Tale of Two Sisters (2015); Acting for a Cause (2021); Anne Frank House VR (2018); Anne Frank Parallel Stories (2019); Anne Frank Remembered (1995); Anne Frank Video Diary (2020); Anne Frank: 70 Years Later (2015); Anne Frank's Diary (1999); Anne Frank's Holocaust (2015); Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari (1979); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Bild Live (2022); Biography (2000); Classmates of Anne Frank (2008); De Erfenis van Anne Frank (2015); El diari d'Anna Frank (1996); Fantastic (2012); Format 60 (1970); Front Row (2012); Gedenkfeier in Bergen-Belsen (2015); Hanneli and Anne (2017); History (2015); History Daily (2022); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Kaaskoppen & waterlanders (2008); La casa del darrere (2009); Love All You Have Left (2017); My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021); No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story (2015); Otto Frank, Father of Anne (2010); Silence is Violence (2021); The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988); The Brief Life of Anne Frank (2001); The CJN Daily (2022); he Decibel (2022); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 / 1962 / 1967 / 1980 / 1985 / 1987 / 1995 / 2009 / 2016); The History Chicks (2018); The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank (1988); The Twentieth Century (1964); The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022); The World at War (1974); Timmen (1968); Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (2019); Where Is Anne Frank (2021); Who Betrayed Anne Frank (2001); Witness History: Archive 2012 (2012).

This Is What You Take From Them When You Cheat:

By Kirsten Corley

June 12th 2017

When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. – The Kite Runner.

When I sat across the table listening as she told me the story of her breakup, the words cheating left me hating someone I didn’t even know. Here before me sat this beautiful girl inside and out and the only thought that crossed my mind was how could anyone cheat on someone like you? The next thought that crossed my mind was it’s his loss.

But I listened to fine details as she questioned herself like it was her fault. Like it was something she did wrong. Like she was to blame for someone’s inability to see her worth and value. And as she ran over details questioning everything and I watched as she broke before me. I saw firsthand the effects cheating had on someone. And all I wanted to do was hug her and tell her his loss will be someone’s gain. But I knew in my heart she wouldn’t believe me because he didn’t just take away a relationship from her, he took so much more in an act selfishness.

When you cheat what you take away from someone is their self-confidence. Suddenly they are looking at their reflection like there’s something they need to improve on and change.

When you cheat what you take away from someone is their self-respect. You made them look like a fool because you couldn’t be loyal.

When you cheat what you take away from someone is the right to the truth. Suddenly everything in the past feels like a lie as they run over details that used to make them smile, they can’t anymore.

When you cheat what you take away from someone is disbelieving in love. Because what you teach them is it’s a lie. And they never fully get over that or let someone that close in the future.

I sat on a barstool across the table from my ex and I knew I’d come for answers that would be hard to hear. Maybe that’s why I didn’t cry when he owned up to everything. Maybe that’s why I didn’t flinch when he admitted it. Maybe that’s why I sat there calmly with a mature response I didn’t know I had in me at 21. “If you are learning from this experience even if it’s at the cost of breaking my heart and it makes you better for the next relationship then that’s all I can hope for.”

When you cheat what you take away from someone are nights of sleep as they toss and turn because the truth completely blindsided and traumatized them.

When you cheat what you take away from someone is their happiness because you were this person who made them so happy but all of that is gone now and there is this cold reality it was never real, to begin with.

When you cheat what you take away from someone is trusting anyone because no matter how many compliments you gave them something tells them it wasn’t enough and that’s why you weren’t loyal.

When you cheat what you leave them with is a crippling pain as they break down at random times during the day feeling completely ashamed of it. Because you don’t just get over someone cheating that easily.

I looked at her as I ordered a drink smiling. Then I looked at him across the room. Part of me wanted to tell her what I knew. Girl code. She deserved the truth. But she also deserved better. I just didn’t want to be the one to break it to her. I knew it wasn’t in my place. I knew karma or fate would eventually reveal the ugly cards he was playing in some game he thought he made up the rules to. So, I said thank you and I walked away.

When you cheat you ruin them. You destroy them. You leave them insecure. You leave them doubting themselves.

When you cheat what you leave them with is a strength they didn’t even know they had and they know they can overcome anything.

When you cheat what you leave them with is a new found self and being so cautious no one will ever hurt them that way again.

When you cheat what you leave them with is knowing it was your loss this whole time and not theirs.

When you cheat what you leave them with is an opportunity and a chance to meet someone who would never even think to cheat on them because your mistake is someone’s prayers finally answered.

When you cheat you give them a happy ending you didn’t deserve to be a part of in the first place.

So, cheat if you want to. Lie. Sneak around. But know the truth, no matter how coy you think you are, always will get revealed. And in the end, it’s you who ends up alone and eventually, you will get a taste of your own medicine.

Kirsten Corley is the author of But Before You Leave, a book of poetry about the experiences we struggle to put into words.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/kirsten-corley/2017/06/this-is-what-you-take-from-them-when-you-cheat/

In support of Narcissistic Abuse awareness and recovery.

June 1st is World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day (WNAAD).

Recommended websites for research and recovery:

http://www.wnaad.com/

http://flyingmonkeysdenied.com/

http://www.innerintegration.com/

http://www.drgeorgesimon.com/

https://kimsaeed.com/

https://www.psychopathfree.com/

https://eclecticalu.blogspot.com/

https://micheleleenieves.com/

https://www.thriveafterabuse.com/

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