Only BOO and nothing more NEW BOOK!

I haven't had a chance to post much here lately. It's drawing nearer to the Haunting Season which is my time of year, so I've been busy preparing this new book, just released this afternoon in the Amazon marketplace. The Kindle ebook will follow shortly. I need to removed the irrelevant page numbers from the table of content because I don't think they'll line up correctly in ebook format.

Anyway- I've been busy  drawing classic movie monsters (have the mummy and Frankenstein's monster drawn and brief new narratives inspired by the pictures written. I'm working n Nosferatu now. Want to get the Wolfman done, and my version of he creature from the black lagoon before PumpkinFest on October 19th, and a Halloween event at the Agawam Public Library.

Only BOO, and nothing more is a collection of 12 new stories and a poem I wrote many years ago for a Poe group I belonged to on Yahoo, using the cadence and stanza format of Poe's The Raven, called Trick or Treat, and Nothing More. Then I gleaned 16 stories from 13 and Miss Peculiar's Ghost Stories, Volume I that have never been republished in a smaller 5x8 format book and tucked them into this volume for a total of 29 haunting ghost and other tales. I may retire 13 and Miss Peculiar's Ghost Stories, Volume I since I think I've moved all the stories from those two books into Disturbing (anthology I wrote with daughter Kelly adding her stories), and The Hanging Man and other stories.

I had an interesting and lively conversation with a co-worker today who has also lived in a haunted house. She gave me some ideas for new ghost stories.

And I should take a moment to again thank author Russell Atwood who invited me to read a chiller story at his first Ghost Stories LIVE! event at the local indie book shop back in October 2016, I believe it was. He made me a permanent cast member and I've had fun writing new ghost stories for each recurring event over the past three years. Many of these ghost stories appear in Only BOO, and nothing more. The tradition of telling ghost stories is a old one. It was all the rage during Victorian times when spiritualism and seances were very popular, but the tradition dates back further than the 1800's. I've been fortunate to have been a part of the oral ghost story renaissance, and to have developed a following. I tend to be a quiet person who keeps to herself, so these story telling events helped me step out of the shadows and share my stories.

I'm off to write a ghost story for the Glow Walk taking place on our beautiful bike path here in town on October 14th. They want oral storytellers to walk and talk and tell tales during rest breaks. I was contacted an asked to participate but am unable to as I have to work, and have health issues that make walking distances difficult, but said I would contribute some stories. Kelly may contribute some of her flash fiction ghost stories, too.

Let the Haunting begin!