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  • Green banner image with text reading Excerpt from The Bliss House by Jim Bartley. Cover of The Bliss House on the right, Open Book logo on the left
    Green banner image with text reading Excerpt from The Bliss House by Jim Bartley. Cover of The Bliss House on the right, Open Book logo on the left
    November 07, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from The Bliss House, Jim Bartley's Atmospheric Dive into a Strange 1960s Family

    Far from town, on a run-down farm, the Bliss family has kept to themselves for nearly 100 years. But something has changed and people are whispering about the strange happenings out at the Bliss place, ...

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