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Young loner Simon Powers is amazed to learn that he has a sexually transmitted disease as he has been celibate for three years and visits the clinic run by Dr Benham. Over the next few weeks Simon feels that his body is being taken over by somebody else though ultimately it is for the good as he becomes a different person But as Simon starts to feel stronger Dr Benham starts to feel that his life is taking a turn for the worse
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In an all night café pregnant waitress Joyce meets old flame Eddie, once a proud and handsome young man who now has a haunted look. He tells her how he once shared lodgings with the elderly but bewitching Miss Corvier, who taught him how to forage for fungi and other free foods. However she also had another, extremely sinister dietary habit, which had a disturbing effect upon him.
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In the Diogenes Club writer Danny is sceptical of ghost stories told by other members and barmaid Elena but contributes a spooky tale of his own when, as a boy, he met a gang of youths who took him to a sinister house in the woods . They dared him to go in and he refused but then something very weird happened, Nobody else believes him except an elderly man who seems to have known the boys that Danny met and can vouch for his story.
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Celebrated photographer Dean Smith tells interviewer Miranda how, as a teenager, he became besotted with Charlotte, a 19-year old model whose photograph he saw in a men's magazine. Bizarrely, over the years, he would see her again and again in different publications under different names but still only nineteen. All his efforts to track her down were in vain until, some twenty years after his first sight of her, she walked into his newly acquired first studio to model for him and still gave her age as nineteen. Rather than try to explain the enigma he has treasured it, regarding her as his first and only muse.
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