by Editor
on October 31, 2021
Our Short Story Competition Winners Feature The Ghost Of A Notorious Murderer, A Shape-Shifting Grandma, Phone Calls From The Dead, And A Slavic Nightmare
We’ve selected four fine short stories as the winner and three honorable mentions in the Fall 2021 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition. Accompanied by original illustrations from artist Andy Paciorek, all are now available for your reading pleasure right here.
These four pieces will be included in Volume III of our ongoing print anthology series, 21st Century Ghost Stories. Volume III is due out from Wyrd Harvest Press (Durham, U.K.) in 2024. Meanwhile, don’t forget to get yourself a copy of Volume II, which was just published in August. All profits from the sale of our books are donated to the Wildlife Trusts, a British wildlife conservation organization. Cheers.
by Editor
on October 1, 2021
. . . . And A (Glowing) Boston Globe Review For 21st Century Ghost Stories
It’s October 1, which means that we’ve stopped taking submissions for the fall 2021 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award Competition. Everyone who submitted a story will be hearing from us over the coming weeks, and the winner, along with two honorable mention pieces, will be announced and published on Halloween—complete, of course, with a custom Andy Paciorek illustration for each.
Our next supernatural story contest, the winter 2022 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, opens to submissions on December 1. By flash fiction we mean 1,000 words or fewer—and for further information, have a look at our guidelines.
Further news: A few hours ago, our just-published anthology of competition winners and honorable mentions from the last three years, 21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume II, received its first big review in a major newspaper, the Boston Globe. Here’s what they said:
October now, and so begins the haunted season of the year. A new anthology of ghost stories, edited by Midcoast Maine writer and editor Paul Guernsey, and including a selection of stories by authors from all over the world, traffics in the uncanny, the strange, the inexplicable. “21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume II” (Wyrd Harvest) is striking for its variety of approaches to the supernatural. [continue reading…]
by Editor
on September 13, 2021
Author, Supernatural Fiction Award Winner, And “Foremost Authority On Halloween”
Behind the scenes here at The Ghost Story—well, actually . . . working from her home in Massachusetts—Lesley Bannatyne is busy reading submissions to the fall 2021 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition in preparation for selecting a winner and two honorable mentions—all of whom, of course, will be announced on Halloween.
The autumn competition couldn’t have a finer or more appropriate judge: not only is Bannatyne a previous Supernatural Fiction Award winner for her summer 2020 piece, “Corpse Walks Into A Bar,” but her nonfiction books on Halloween have earned her the unofficial title of “world’s foremost authority” on the holiday.
Her Halloween titles include Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night (Pelican Publishing), which was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award. She edited an anthology of folklore-based literature, A Halloween Reader (also published by Pelican). [continue reading…]
by Editor
on August 31, 2021
The Best Of The Ghost Story—And The Best Of Ghost Stories
We are pleased to present
21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume II, A haunting new book from Wyrd Harvest Press. The 30 stories in the book are penned by a host of award-winning writers—all of them winners or honorable mentions in either The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest, or the Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition. This volume is edited by Paul Guernsey and illustrated throughout by Andy Paciorek.
You can order a copy from Barnes & Noble, From Amazon.com—or
directly from the printer.
All sales profits from books bought in our online Lulu shop are charitably donated to The Wildlife Trusts environmental, conservation and education projects at the Summer and Winter Solstices.
