Ghost Story

A month’s worth of words for October 2022 Hello, my little ghouls and goblins. Are we ready for a month’s worth of spooky ideas? I hope so because I have a lot of ideas for October. …

A television crew interviews a murderous prisoner believed to be demon possessed. — Continuing my brief series showcasing the first chapters of some of my novels, here’s the post-prologue opening of gothic mystery horror-thriller The Irresistible Summons. Naomi Levinson sat in the driver’s seat of the company Citroen Berlingo, watching light drizzle splatter on the windscreen. She drummed her fingers on the steering…

I was the baby in my family by nearly ten years. Outside the family, I knew only a few kids my own age, and so I geared my little boy’s mind to the alleged grown-ups who towered and stormed around me. While I was a strange add-on to them, I…

“The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window,” Arvis said. “I must have gone by that cabin a number of times. I hiked there all the time as a kid. The old property never really stuck out that much…

If you had the opportunity to meet an entity from another world, would you take it? — It was 1999, maybe early 2000. Under the influence of multiple green apple martinis, I had wandered alone into a mostly empty theater showing The Blair Witch Project. Drunk when I stumbled in, drunk when I stumbled out, I found myself walking lost and long through dark, strangely empty streets. …

New France, Nova Scotia, is the site of many ghost stories. New France was located about twenty miles from Weymouth. It was located in the middle of the dense woods. The area has a rich history, and more than its fair share of ghostly encounters. Emile Stehelin, and his wife…

A Flash Fiction Story by Jimmy Blakemore We didn’t live in a city or a big town. It was a tiny, middle-of-nowhere, barely even a blip on the map kind of town. It was such a small place that everyone knew everyone, even their neighbors’ out-of-town cousins. Everyone lived happily…