Christina Callison

Christina Callison is a Library Associate and works at the reference desks and in reader’s advisory. She is responsible for the horror genre but also works in other genres including mysteries and fantasies. Christina is part of the Collectibles Neighborhood team.

Contact Christina at ccallison@tscpl.org

Christina's Posts

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The Puzzle of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore

Mr. Penumbra’s Bookstore is an impossibly narrow shop that has shelving that goes from the floor to ceiling three stories high with only ladders to retrieve the books at the top. The used books it sells at the front of the store are a mix of classics with a few popular titles thrown in, but it is the books from the back of the store that are different, even obscure with unknown authors and titles. The customers who use the books from the back of the store never buy, the books only borrow them…

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Vengeance in Dead Anyway

Arthur Cathcart was a numbers cruncher and freelance researcher who worked from home and counted himself lucky because his beautiful wife loved him and he loved her. They were happy and life was perfect until a hired gunman killed his wife and left Arthur for dead.

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Morlock’s beginnings in A Guile of Dragons

The Wardlands was on the otherside of the Sea of Worlds, far away from Arthur’s Britain and quite a journey for Merlin and his pregnant mistress who were being forced to this distant land. The Wardlands was Merlin’s homeland where he was to stand trial for treason before being exiled and forbidden to return, though before his expulsion Merlin left something precious behind: his son, Morlock.

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The First Foodie in Thomas Jefferson’s Crème Brûlée

After independence from Britain, Thomas Jefferson was sent to France to represent the United States, but he also had other plans- to learn about French food, wine, cooking, and then bring the cuisine back to this country. This plan included a slave, James Hemings, who was to be apprenticed to French chefs in order to become an accomplished chef who would ultimately teach his skills to another slave in Jefferson’s household.

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The Latest Sci-fi Thriller by Daniel H. Wilson

In the near future a new human has emerged with implants in the brain that has altered intelligence and given skills that make some people very smart and others even dangerous. Though most humans don’t have the implants, they see the results of implants and that provokes fear and anger causing a violent backlash…

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From the Author of City of Silver Comes Another Historical Mystery

In 1868 Paraguay was in ruins from a disastrous war that killed up to ninety percent of the fighting-aged men, and started the breakdown of society. In response, the Padre of the village of Santa Caterina asked the women to become pregnant by any man regardless if they were married. However, even in the midst of the chaos, some things were still worthy of punishment like the murder of the hated Richard Yotté.

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A Fallen Angel in The Taken

About fifty years ago Grif was murdered and became a type of angel, a Centurion, who helped the recently deceased move on to the next step, the Everlast. Then he made a mistake that changed the future and fated a young woman, Kit, to die before her time. As a punishment he’s lost his wings…

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Tragedy in a Small Town in A Killing in the Hills

On a Saturday morning three retired gentlemen were having coffee at a small town diner in Acker’s Gap, West Virginia when a man opened the door, fired a gun and killed them instantly. The gunman escaped leaving behind baffled and hysterical witnesses that were unable to describe him.

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The Risks of Flying in The Map of My Dead Pilots

The bush pilots of Alaska risk their lives to transport people, mail, medicine, animals, dead bodies and everything else in between to keep the isolated villages linked to the outside world. Perils abound since Alaska…

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The Mind Bending Ride of The Man from Primrose Lane

Akron, Ohio had the Every neighborhood seems to have someone that’s a little odd or eccentric and West man from Primrose Lane who wore mittens everyday through the heat of summer to the cold of winter. He lived in a rundown isolated house, and for the most part people left him alone and watched him from a distance until one day he was murdered.

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Victorian Murder and Mystery in The Dead Witness

Before Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes there was French detective C. Auguste Dupin who is credited as being the detective in the first mystery called “The Murders in Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. Modern mysteries have a wonderful past with detective stories tracing back to the Victorian Era…