In the guise of salesmen and -women, ghosts representing both temptation and fear keep showing up at Abby’s door—each one serving to remind her of her numerous mistakes. One of the accomplishments of this spring 2023 honorable mention story is that it manages to be both humorous and poignant. It’s right here for your reading enjoyment.
The winning story in our Spring 2023 full-length story competition is set entirely at a seedy, eerie rural carnival, and it’s all about lust, late-middled-aged longing, and a granted wish gone very bad. It has been published right here on our website for your reading pleasure.
They’re Heeeeere!
Ever since we decided to run two Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competitions per year here on The Ghost Story website . . . it seems like year-round we’re always either opening a contest, closing a contest, or celebrating a new winner and several honorable mentions for a contest—and this spring is no different.
As you’re likely aware, the Spring 2023 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest for full-length short stories (1,500-10,000 words) closed to submissions on April 30. We received over 250 supernatural stories from all over the world, and we’re currently preparing to announce and publish a winner and two honorable mentions on June 1. Each of those stories will appear right here our our website accompanied an original illustration by Andy Paciorek.
Then, a week later, our Summer 2023 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, for supernatural stories of up to 1,000 words, will open to submissions on June 6. The summer flash competition will remain open until July 15, and we’ll present the winner and honorable mentions on July 31. You can check out the complete guidelines here.
Right after that, The Fall 2023 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest opens to submissions . . . but at this point—mid spring—that’s probably looking just a little too far ahead.
In any case, it all adds to four seasons of enjoyable, often chilling, reading here on TGS.
Volume II of our print anthology, “21st Century Ghost Stories,” has just been published. It contains all of our Summer 2018 to Summer 2021 winning and honorable mention stories from The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition—30 fine supernatural short stories in all!
