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Category: Ghost stories

Welcome on Board, Sir

Posted on October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

It’s either a retirement master-stroke or a cop out. You decide. I was reading the Sunday papers while we were in Wales and it was full of Halloween stuff. I haven’t had time to write a new ghost story but I thought I would dig out one of my old ones (available on Kindle as…

Ghost story 9 : All Part of the Service

Posted on September 12, 2014

I love ghost stories, (although sadly Mrs Summerhouse does not), as books (Stephen King et al), stories (M.R. James, Charles Dickens), TV programmes (The Signalman, The Monkeys Paw), plays (The Ghost Train, Woman in Black, Ghost Stories) or films, serious and humorous ones, (The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Orphanage,  The Exorcist, The Fog (just), The Cat and…

Ghost Story 8 : The Stone Circle

Posted on June 21, 2014

Number 8 in this series of ghost stories. That means only 3 to go unless I try and write more. I don’t know whether these stories will be missed. I don’t know whether anybody reads them, certainly I have never had any comments about them so maybe I really am just publishing them for my…

Ghost Story : The house that wouldn’t let go

Posted on April 11, 2014April 23, 2014

This is number 6 in my series of ghost stories. After the rather exotic setting of a cathedral last time I wanted a more ordinary setting for this story and what could be more ordinary than an ordinary house in an ordinary street. Just like the one I live in! To read the story go to…

The Other Train

Posted on January 30, 2014February 2, 2014

This is the fourth of my ghost stories. I hope you’re enjoying them. This one is called The Other Train and was inspired by a couple of trips on the Leeds – Carlisle railway and by walks around Ribblehead Viaduct and Blea Moor tunnel. They’re wild places and very evocative, ghost stories come easily to…

Ghost story number 3 : Welcome On Board, Sir

Posted on December 23, 2013December 30, 2013

Just to let you know I’ve published the latest in my series of ghost stories. This one won a short story writing competition. To read it go to the title bar above, click on ‘That which lies beneath‘ and choose this story. Hope you enjoy it.

Ghost stories

Posted on November 21, 2013February 17, 2014

You can’t say you don’t get variety on this blog. Today I’ve posted a new ghost story called The Thirteenth Hole.  It is the second of the series of stories titled That Which Lies Beneath. Unsurprisingly it’s about golf and it is a mind game. There’s a blog on here that sums up my experience…

Ghost story number 1 : Returned without prejudice

Posted on October 24, 2013October 24, 2013

Each month as a way of trying something different I will publish a ghost story. They will be available as an Ebook. This first story is about a man who went to a supermarket and found an aisle that sold items he hadn’t expected to find, items that were to have unhappy consequences.

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