Will declared void despite threat of ghostly curse by its author
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OSLO, Norway  - A Norwegian's threat to haunt anyone who tampered with his will didn't hold up in - or send a chill through - a court.
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Â· No plans for state of emergency, Guardian told Â· President's woes grow as exiled rival plans return
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Blog: Writer is duped for the first time ever by a phishing attack; feels violated and ashamed.
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Harry Potter fans: Beware of the Internet! The last installment of the boy wizard's saga is supposed to be kept secret until Saturday, but photographs and scanned copies of each page of the unreleased book -- both real and fake -- are already circulating on the Web.
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Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts
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Author's estate says studio has not paid its share of profits from successful Lord of the Rings series
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About a month ago, writer James Buchan was worrying about his livestock and the intricacies of ghost stories, when the phone rang in his Norfolk, England, farmhouse.
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Not every internet forum is blessed with the mentally ill. Love him or hate him, MichaelCrawford is one of Kuro5hin's best and most prolific writers. He is truly a K5 icon.    But, alas, tragedy has struck. The MichaelCrawford account has been struck down, deleted, anonymised. The full details of why this outrage against K5 has been perpetrated are not clear; it appears that the editor pwhysall  took offense at a recent failed Crawford submission to the queue and left snarky comments; in response, our favourite K5 writer with schizoaffective disorder submitted story called "Let's All Get pwhysall Laid". Since then, the MichaelCrawford account has been missing in action.    Inside: What you can do to help
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A local council in County Durham has paid a psychic to exorcise a ghost from one of its properties after the spooked occupants threatened to leave and make themselves homeless.
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Boosters of the occult arts have won a relaxation of the town's strict limits on fortune tellers. But what does the future hold?
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"And there I stood: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, armed only with a bucket of water."  "Which is, curiously enough, almost exactly the position that Windows users find themselves in today: alone in the dark, unknown terrors approaching, but in their case, having a bucket of water would be an improvement."  "MS04-028 is, perhaps, the epitome of bad technical writing - the literary equivalent of spaghetti code. I've read through it far too many times, and I still understand far too little."  And who is at fault here?  You or Microsoft?  Microsoft has for years demonstrated that they hate their customers.  Yet its people like Tom Liston that keep coming back for more abuse.  T ...
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LOS ANGELES  - Horror master Clive Barker is developing a young-adult thriller centered on the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.
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If you're expecting to read "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" as an e-book, you will surely be disappointed. J. K. Rowling has not released the first six that way, and will not be releasing the last one that way either. You will be able to ...
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A court rules a web-based bankruptcy "expert" is not a clerical tool but is effectively practicing law without a license. Plus: Internet doomed, close browser now. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Tycho:  Gabriel and Kara are thinking about moving, but only one of them is approaching things with the correct amount of dread.  It is almost impossible to find a home these days which is not some unholy conduit - a winking anus of evil that acts as a revolving door for hell's starveling dead.  But a hollowed-out ghoul in shredded wedding gown doesn't need to be a dealbreaker.  Don't let a sundered soul turn your dream home into a nightmare charnel house!
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Harry Potter fans will finally find out if the boy wizard survives his last hurrah at Hogwarts Saturday, when J.K. Rowling&#39;s seventh, swansong book comes out amid top security and anxious calls for more.
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A misfiled form robs a widower of his wife's final wishes -- could it happen to you?