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September 22

This week, the hunt for a stonecarver is on to replace what is believed to be the only real, working gargoyle in the U.S. state of Maine after the stone beastie disintegrates upon a building inspection earlier in the year. Save the gargoyles...

And there's fun for the whole family in a wild, imaginary trip to garbage-strewn, disease-ridden London in Peter Ackroyd's new book, the Clerkenwell Tales, about a group of 13th century Christian terrorists who really insist the city be saved...

Meanwhile, the New York Post screams HAUNTED STATUES STOLEN when 'medieval doers' abscond with two 6-foot tall knights from a local inn located in upstate New York. Later, one of the knight's hands is found in the parking lot. He "apparently put up a valiant struggle..."




New York Carver