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Haunted Hotel: Will Thornewood be your Forever Home? by Debbie Oliveira

Welcome to day twenty 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 #595!   Will Thornewood be your Forever Home? Barely dead, almost dead, or owe death a favor? Perhaps the Thornewood Hotel is right for you! Boasting expansive facilities of the highest caliber, a 24hr wait staff that caters to your peculiarities, and a wide variety of leisure activities, Thornewood will no doubt fill that hole in your heart! (O[...]

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Haunted Hotel: Food and Drink Man by Victoria Nations

Welcome to day nineteen 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 scare comes from the staff areas--places where guests are never supposed to go. Enjoy the employees only key...but beware!   "Food and Drink Man." "Yes, sir.  You'll be staying with us overnight?"  The desk clerk stood stiffly behind the high wooden desk, blond hair pulled back to the nape of her neck.  Her face looked pale in the light of the computer screen. [...]

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Haunted Hotel: Crimson Reality by Kathleen Palm

Welcome to day seventeen 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 scare comes from room #317!   My entire life, all twenty-three years, have lead to tomorrow. The day my life begins. I glance at my phone as it vibrates in my hand, the screen bright with a call. I tighten my grip, resisting the urge to throw my cell across the parking lot. “Give it up, Mom.” I drag my suitcase out of the backseat and slam the door. The wh[...]

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Haunted Hotel: Room #13 by C. L. McCollum

Welcome to day fourteen 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 #13!     Samantha didn’t want the room. Call her superstitious, but the “13” stamped on the brass keychain didn’t seem like a lucky number for anyone, let alone someone in her predicament. “You’re sure I can’t change it? I mean some hotels don’t even have a thirteenth floor…” The older woman behind the counter hadn[...]

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Haunted Hotel: Hungry by Clarissa West

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[...]