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[...]
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0 Welcome to day THREE 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 #23. Marni dangled the key in front of her face. It looked old to Jo, worn, a cliché of a key rather than the real thing, round at one end with a slim shaft ending in an irregular set of teeth. The broken teeth of a mad fool, Jo thought, and giggled. Marni frowned at the noise and shrugged, closing the distance between them. “The hotel’s[...]
Welcome to day TWO 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 #314. Walking through the shabby hotel hallways with the luggage-toting bellhop in tow, Ray Martin assumed that the Thornewood Hotel had to have once seen better days. But he’d been coming to the quietly moldering New England hotel for going on forty-five years now, and it had always vaguely reminded him of the setting for Poe’s “Fall of t[...]
Happy cover reveal day! Last year I had an idea. I wanted to launch a small publishing house that published only MG, YA, and NA horror because in my opinion, it’s widely underrepresented. I love scary stories and I grew up reading anything and everything spooky that I could get my hands on. I read it all. R.L. Stine, Point Horror Books, and Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories with those incredible illustrations by Stephen Gammell. So I launched Hocus Pocus & Co. I put out a call for a Halloween anthology. The stories and illustrations had to be of the MG an[...]