Christmas will soon be here, and Christmas is the season for ghost stories. I think it was Jerome K Jerome who observed that at Christmas, that time of fellowship and good cheer, we love to tell stories of the grave, of hearts torn asunder by death, of ghastly presences hovering in the dark just outside the lamplight... How right he was.
Here's a little Christmas present for my readers, a link to one of the stories in my book OVERHEARD IN A GRAVEYARD - in fact, the title story itself.
I'll be posting links to another ghost story on Christmas Day itself, over on Do Authors Dream of Electric Books.
The story going up on Christmas Day is a much sweeter tale than Overheard - it's based on family Christmases from my childhood, and was inspired by my mother talking about her childhood Christmases and how much her mother always looked forward to Christmas. It's called 'The Christmas Trees' and comes from my collection of ghost stories, NIGHTCOMERS.
It's a bit of a family affair, as all the covers to my e-books are done by my brother, Andrew Price.
I have yet another collection of ghost stories on kindle, HAUNTINGS. I like ghost stories - I like reading them and writing them. They aren't an easy form.
For me, they aren't about gross-out horror. That's for horror-stories. Ghost stories, I feel, should unsettle or disturb in some way - but they are as much for talking about sadness and loss as fear. They are about our shadow-side and the numinous, as well as the dead.
But for now I'll wish you all a Merry Christmas, because this blog will be taking a break over Christmas (and eating itself sick.)
But, before I go, Blot has a Christmas Message he wishes to impart -
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| 'Overheard In A Graveyard' by Susan Price. |
Christmas will soon be here, and Christmas is the season for ghost stories. I think it was Jerome K Jerome who observed that at Christmas, that time of fellowship and good cheer, we love to tell stories of the grave, of hearts torn asunder by death, of ghastly presences hovering in the dark just outside the lamplight... How right he was.
Here's a little Christmas present for my readers, a link to one of the stories in my book OVERHEARD IN A GRAVEYARD - in fact, the title story itself.
I'll be posting links to another ghost story on Christmas Day itself, over on Do Authors Dream of Electric Books.
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| 'Nightcomers' by Susan Price. |
It's a bit of a family affair, as all the covers to my e-books are done by my brother, Andrew Price.
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| 'Hauntings' by Susan Price |
For me, they aren't about gross-out horror. That's for horror-stories. Ghost stories, I feel, should unsettle or disturb in some way - but they are as much for talking about sadness and loss as fear. They are about our shadow-side and the numinous, as well as the dead.
But for now I'll wish you all a Merry Christmas, because this blog will be taking a break over Christmas (and eating itself sick.)
But, before I go, Blot has a Christmas Message he wishes to impart -
