Sep 29, 2020 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories
In Rockland County, NY, straddling the border between the towns of Stony Point and Haverstraw, and only three miles from where I live, lies one of the most tragic places in all of New York State. And likely one of the most haunted. It is Letchworth Village, and its...
Aug 11, 2020 | Mysterious Places
Before Covid, one of the places I was excited to visit in Edinburgh, Scotland was the Real Mary King’s Close. Located under the Royal Mile, in the historic Old Town area, the Close (a Scottish term that means “alleyway”) is Edinburgh’s only...
Jul 14, 2020 | Bloody Book Club, Mysterious Places, Tales of the Supernatural, The Writing Life
They’re ba-ack. Reluctant ghostbusters Jackson Stone and Kate Carlsson have returned in a fifth supernatural mystery, Mask of Ghosts, and this time, they’re going to Bali! No good deed goes unpunished. Roxi thought the Balinese mask would make the perfect...
Jul 8, 2020 | Mysterious Places
When one thinks of eerie places to explore, Disneyworld doesn’t top the list…but perhaps it should. The Magic Kingdom has abandoned a number of theme parks, perhaps most famously in Japan, where the Nara Dreamland languished after squabbles over licensing...
Oct 23, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
Please welcome my multi-talented author friend, Damyanti Biswas, as she shares this chilling true story of one of India’s mysterious places. Delhi is a sprawling modern metropolis, and its urban jungle of steel and glass looks unlikely to be haunted, but as I...
Sep 17, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, The Writing Life
When the Winnipeg International Writers Festival selected me as one of four dark-fiction authors to stay overnight at a haunted house, I was excited, but I didn’t have any expectations–at least not on the haunted side of things. Still, it was an amazing...