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Please tell us a bit about your story! “Totmann’s Curve” is a fast-paced tale of ghosts, teenage hot-rodding, and evil sorcerers worshiping dark entities, set in the 1950s Texas Hill Country. After the tragic deaths of two teens during an illegal

Please tell us a bit about your story! I love ghosts and ghost stories in a huddle-around-the-campfire way, but the story I wrote for Sockhops & Seances is not a fun one. I think I wanted to tell that kind of

Please tell us a bit about your story. What inspired it? The great thing about writing historical fiction is that the well of inspiration is bottomless. Wherever you live, there’s some bit of surrounding history largely unknown outside of the area

Please tell us a bit about your story! "The Case That Baffled the Boy" is a collection of three short stories of an unusual boy who solves mysteries in the small harbor town of Greenville to pass the time while

Please tell us a bit about your story! “Unquiet in the Earth” is the latest entry in the long-running Royal Occultist series. It catches up with an older, wiser Ebe Gallowglass in the 1950s, as she and her assistants deal with

Please tell us a bit about your story! “Bottles” is about a young Puerto Rican woman during the Cold War in 1958 Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Employed as a maid by an elderly man with what sounds to her like a Russian accent,

Please tell us a bit about your story! ‘Joe Meek Inherits the Earth’ is a detective story set in London in 1952. The detective is a former American GI who decided to stay in London after demobilization. He his hired to

Please tell us a bit about "Call the Dawn, Dear Brother"! Weird is a very fine line to walk. The publisher called for 1950s weird stories. Not horror, not fantasy, but that undefined twilight space in between: weird. “Call the Dawn, Dear