Welcome to day thirty-one of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! Happy Halloween! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story is here thanks to a master key, given out and forgotten about...until now. "There's no such thing as ghosts, only the emptiness left behind. Everyone leaves. Like this place," the old man said, straining his thin neck as he craned his head to take in the bustling lobby and bar, the giddy line of people at the front desk. "If not for me, this[...]
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0 Welcome to day twenty-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 the residents' bar! “So what’ll it be, sir?” The barman leans towards me with a smile: his blue eyes and his strong jaw remind me of the boyish looks I once had. But then again, everything reminds me of the past in some way. Every. Little. Thing. I shake my head and he raises an eyebrow as if to ask if I’m sure, but he’s already st[...]
Welcome to day thirteen 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 a special key, one that is very old...one that many didn't know existed at all. Here’s what I know of ghosts: most of them don’t know they’ve moved on. Like a television set that’s been shut off recently, there’s a faint glow left over once it's turned off. It’s a light that lingers for a time, but it fades. From the road that w[...]
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.[...]
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[...]
