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Haunted Hotel: The Week End by Jamie Rusovick-Smith

Welcome to day eleven of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #37. Read if you dare! Jake had a gnawing ‘Don’t go in there!’ feeling from the moment he and Ellie stepped out of the cab and onto the cracked sidewalk of the Thornewood Hotel. Something in his twenty-two-year-old frame craved survival and this place screamed death. Or maybe, ‘Clean me.’ Ellie skipped ahead of him, her pale hair swinging b[...]

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Haunted Hotel: In Their House by J. Elizabeth Hill

Welcome to day seven of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #214!   Andrea didn’t believe in ghosts. Daniel had insisted on the Thornewood Hotel for their anniversary, claiming he decided on it because of the history of the city and the ambiance of the hotel. A few seconds on Google had confirmed her suspicions. It was supposed to be haunted. With at least three separate spirits reported over the years[...]

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Haunted Hotel: For the Record by Ashly Nagrant

Welcome to day six of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #237!   For the Record   Excerpt from Rolling Stone “20 years later” interview with the members of Violet’s Diary, October 2016:   Rolling Stone: Okay, so let’s get right to the elephant in the room: where do you all stand on the ghost or the demon thing?   C.W.: Look. I’ve said everything I’m going to say about it.[...]

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Haunted Hotel: The Monsters Among Us by Rosa Taylor

Welcome to day FIVE of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #149.   Thump. Thump. Thump. The rhythmic sound infiltrates my dreams, blending with the hatchet chopping through the bathroom door, until I come to my senses enough to realize that the bloody tool I held in my dream isn't making that noise. With a sigh, I roll over and pull the covers over my head, trying to find my way back into my dream. The[...]

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Haunted Hotel: Hungry by Clarissa West

Welcome to day FOUR of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from the deepest corners and shadows of the Thornewood...the basement!     It’s the smell that gets to you first. It burns the inside of the nostrils a bit going in, and settles its rancidness on the inside and you think it’ll get into your blood and you’ll never get it off again. Sweet like rotting meat, tinged with the dankness of the baseme[...]