ghost stories

“Advent Reunion” In List of Scariest Ghost Stories

October 28, 2012 Books

  In time for Halloween — and to promote his Big Book of Ghost Stories — editor Otto Penzler has listed his pick for the fourteen scariest ghost stories. I’m proud to say my own “Advent Reunion,” which is included in the big book, makes the grade. This is all the more pleasant for a [...]

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Big Book of Ghost Stories Now On Sale

September 23, 2012 News

The Big Book of Ghost Stories — a massive collection from Black Lizard — is now available at Amazon. The cover copy describes the anthology this way: “Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than [...]

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Boo!

August 13, 2012 Books

Over in the news section you can read about the imminent publication of The Big Book of Ghost Stories, a new and massive ghost story anthology from the great and powerful editor Otto Penzler. It includes my own short story The Advent Reunion, which began as a personal experiment in online video storytelling. Here’s a look [...]

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New Ghost Anthology Scheduled

December 19, 2011 News

Vintage Original has scheduled the publication of its new anthology, The Big Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Otto Penzler, for September of 2012. The book will include Andrew’s popular Christmas ghost story “The Advent Reunion.” The story began its life as a series of homemade videos released online with support from Andrew Breitbart’s Big [...]

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Andrew to Address Wedgwood Circle

October 17, 2011 News

Andrew will appear on a panel Wednesday, October 19th, at the Wedgwood Circle‘s annual Investor Event dealing with genre in the arts. “Journey Through Genre” will be centered at the Shutters hotel in Santa Monica and Andrew’s panel will take place at the nearby Laemmle’s Santa Monica 4Plex.  Andrew will present clips from two ghost [...]

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Great Ghosts for Halloween

October 17, 2011 Books

  As readers of my blog will know, I am a huge ghost story fan.  But I only recently discovered this wonderful series from the British publisher Wordsworth books.  Their Mystery and the Supernatural line includes such hard to find stuff as a collection by Oliver Onions—the funny-named author of the classic ghost novella “The [...]

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The Advent Reunion, Parts 1 & 2

December 21, 2010 Culture

For those who may have missed this Christmas ghost story last year, here it is again.  Parts one and two today, part two tomorrow, then the two concluding parts:

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10 Great Spooky Stories

October 25, 2010 Culture

For me, the greatest form for the spooky story is, in fact, the story, the short story.  I know there are exceptions (a recent good one was Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box), but in general I find the novel too long a form to sustain the subtle, delicate kind of scares I particularly like.  Movies can [...]

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Ten Favorite Ghost Movies

October 4, 2010 Culture

Okay, it’s October, Halloween’s coming, I love ghost stories, here’s a list of ten of my favorite ghost movies.  The list rules:  movie has to be about ghosts, not zombies or vampires or something; and it has to be creepy – no whimsy or love stories like The Ghost & Mrs. Muir or A Christmas [...]

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Ambrose, Vladimir, Russell & Me

June 1, 2010 Culture

A nice post from First Assassin author and National Review contributor John Miller over at his excellent website.  He lists four of  his favorite ghost stories with entries from Ambrose Bierce, Vladimir Nabokov, Russell Kirk and, in that august company, my own Advent Reunion, which will be published in a new print form in Ellery [...]

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