OUR LATEST CONTEST WINNERS

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Have a look at our Supernatural Fiction Award guidelines as well as the separate guidelines for the Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition.

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TGS NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

OUR SPRING WINNERS

May 31, 2026
Look up to the top of the TGS Home Page, and you’ll see that we’ve listed the new Top Three in the Supernatural Fiction Award—this trio of tales for our Spring 2026 contest iteration. Congratulations to winner Mari Harrison, and honorable mentions Alexander Weinstein and Gerard J Waggett. These are three awesome and original short […]
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NOVEL WEBSITE

April 8, 2026
The Ghost Story’s editor and publisher, Paul Guernsey, has published a new novel—his fourth—that’s been out for not quite two months. Rolling Back the River is an outdoor adventure story that contains strong elements of magical realism—including scenes and dreams that take place in both Maine and South America. A lot of things have been […]
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!

March 3, 2026
TGS Editor and Publisher Paul Guernsey has a new book out in the world—his fourth novel. The title is Rolling Back the River, published by Stackpole Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, and while it isn’t a ghost story, it contains strong elements of magical realism and is mostly set in Argentina, home country of […]
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21st Century Ghost Stories Anthology

This great anthology gathers award-winning work by contemporary short-fiction writers from around the world, all of whom drew their inspiration from the supernatural.

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