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.
by Editor
on July 26, 2021
Our Fall 2021 Contest
Now open for submissions: The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award.
Prizes: $1500 for the winner. $300 for each of two honorable mentions.
Plus, publication for all three, both online and in our print anthology, 21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume III.
Read our complete guidelines.
by Editor
on June 30, 2021
Winner—Summer 2021 Supernatural Fiction Award
“Bellechasse, my friend in Paris, is the only non-medical man I know who keeps a collection of human skulls—nearly a dozen—randomly displayed in the library of his grand apartment overlooking the Quai d’Orsay. One winter evening he poured me a brandy and explained why.”
Read it here.
