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A monologue in a play by this author tells of a spider kept out of Heaven in case he scared children. In that play by this author, Charles Dickens hosts a guest who calls him “Charles Darwin” and returns home to find two time-traveling Belgians who were shot with a machine gun hidden in a “haunted concertina.” This author created a character who writes a story about a girl who thinks she is Jesus’s second coming being buried (10[1])alive, and another about a girl who kills her father by putting razor blades in his apples. A pygmy woman (10[1]-5[1])is forced to write (10[1])stories (10[1])for Hans (-5[1])Christian Andersen in this playwright’s A Very Very (10[1])Very Dark Matter. (10[1])In a play by this author, detectives Ariel and Tupolski question Katurian, whose stories mirror real-life (-5[1])child murders. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what Irish author of The Pillowman (-5[2])wrote and directed (10[2])the film In Bruges ■END■ (10[5]0[5])

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