"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said,
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!"
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while today chocolate is mostly enjoyed in dessert forms such as bars, ice creams, and cakes, it was originally consumed in this bitter and spicy fashion until the 19th century
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this caramel-coated carnival snack can keep your porch nice and bright during spooky season
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claustrophobia
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“I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth."
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this candy bar consisting of peanuts, caramel, nougat, and chocolate has no connection to a famous baseball player with a very similar name to it and actually won a lawsuit against that baseball player's personal candy bar company
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this Mexican holiday held around Halloween celebrates this coming-of-age film starring Robin Williams as an English teacher
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coulrophobia
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“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
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this German confectionary company created the world's first gummy candy and popularized an iconic gummy shape based off their logo
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this vegetarian barbeque option is left behind by spiders in dusty corners
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lepidopterophobia
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“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”
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this candy bar introduced in 1932 originally contained three flavours—chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry—hence the name, derived from this triadic novel from 1844 by Alexandre Dumas
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the "Halloween" slasher villain might have been an ISFJ according to this personality test
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
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