For anyone who knows the history, Salem, Massachusetts has more than a few stories to tell. Travel to the Witch City within the pages of these collected short stories, and know the captivating nature of one of the oldest towns in America. Feel the summer breeze at Salem Willows and smell the scent of mulled cider drifting down Derby Street. See the wharf from a birds-eye-view, feel your toes in the sand while the sun sets over Dead Horse Beach, and find the secrets that reside in the very cracks of three-hundred-year-old tombstones in the Old Burying Ground. Spend a night among ghosts and witches and know the magic of Salem, where myth and legend collide with truth. Do beware, dear friends, for the Witch City has a dark side, and there is more to those legends than what you might read in the pages of a dusty old book. Remember to look over your shoulder, for you never know what shadows follow you down that dimly lit corridor.

Shadows in Salem: Wicked Tales from the Witch City

Literature & Fiction

Newberry, Amber

Halecki, Kathleen

COOPER, PATRICK

Carey, Michael

Barber, Richard Farren

McArthur, Melissa

Grizzle, Bill Dale

Fox, Mary Jo

Gibbs, David J

Nichols, Jonathan D.

Short Stories & Anthologies

FunDead Publications

Pristine, white snow shrouds evil things that revel in the longest, darkest night of the year. A fresh waft of peppermint brightens a monster’s foul breath. World weary ghosts have only until dawn to seek their retribution. The wind howls through the trees, or is that a choir of unearthly voices? “O Horrid Night” revives the tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, when it is said that the barrier between the living and the dead is thinnest, and spirits may walk the earth. Such tales were in vogue in Victorian England (remember good old Jacob Marley), but the origins of the tradition stretch back in time, in celebrations of the Winter Solstice, Yule, and Sol Invictus. Gather your friends and loved ones together, get cozy with warm drinks or a roaring fire, and give them the gift of a spine-chilling ancient holiday tradition.

O Horrid Night: Chilling Holiday Tales for the Black-Hearted

Clark, Corinne

Olson, Kenneth E.

Hamilton, Casey E.

Wetmore, Kevin

Christy, Brad P.

Dalton, Jassamy

DeLuca, M.R.

Cox, Sammi

Genre Fiction

“There is but one New Orleans,” they say, bustling with joie de vivre, celebrating non-stop, but step closer, into the clinging, honeysuckle-scented air, and you will find a darker version of the Big Easy, depending on what you believe is true. Tales of vampires, werewolves, curses, and mysterious half-human bayou creatures are pervasive in New Orleans’ culture. Visitors may pass them off as folk tales and superstitions, but the locals know to never go into the deep swamp alone or into the cemetery at night. Tale or truth? In New Orleans, the line between them bleeds.

Night in New Orleans: Bizarre Beats from the Big Easy

Moran, Laurie

Pettigrew, Nathan

Tyrer, D.J.

Sanders Jr., J. Benjamin

Gomez, Klara

Arnold, Cassandra

Lyon, Hillary

Quinn, Brian Malachy

McMillan, P.L.

Souls long gone still wander among the living in Salem. The sound of gallows swinging lingers in the wind. Salem is a boneyard, and like its cemeteries, it mingles four centuries of history with buds of new life sprouting up between the crevices. History is carved into the gravestones, but the death throes of autumns and icy morgue of hundreds of winters have worn away the words, eroding fact into legend. Accusations and confessions have crumbled away into poetry, under the spring shade of new leaves, surrounded by wildflowers. This anthology includes poems by: Amber Newberry, Laurie Moran, Erin Crocker, Rie Sheridan Rose, Jon Bishop, Alec Firicano, Samantha Lucero, J.H. Crone, Cynthia Morrison, Destiny Eve Pifer, Conrad Audette, Cindy Veach, Joanna Costello, Anusha VR, L.J. Paxson, Heather Wagner, Chris Denmead, Marc Sorondo, Monika Bielecki, Jon Etter, Melissa Pleckham, Nancy Brewka-Clark, John Etter, Sebastion Herzfeld, Samantha Lucero, R.C. Mulhare, Ariella Ruth, G.E. Smith, Phil Storey, Hannah Jane Bones, Bret Valdez, Alec Anthony Firicano.

Entombed in Verse: An Epitaph for Salem

Mulhare, R.C.

Etter, Jon

Firicano, Alec

Wagner, Heather

Storey, Phil

Herzfeld, Sebastion

Bishop, Jon

Sorondo, Marc

Rose, Rie Sherida

Poetry

Throngs of tourists pack the streets from Derby to Essex. Costumed children and adults visit haunted attractions and browse t-shirt shops and street vendors’ booths. A veiled figure appears, and you catch her out of the corner of your eye, but she quickly disappears into the crowd… or perhaps into thin air? The night is filled with laughter and screams as the living walk shoulder to shoulder with the dead. Halloween in Salem has expanded into a month-long celebration of all things creepy, but in four hundred years of history, October 31st has held many mysterious customs and dark events, lost and forgotten in the passing of decades. From the cursed Puritan settlers to the Great Salem Fire of 1914, and the whispers of war in 1812 to the story of a bullet hole in an alley on Gedney Street, travel through time, as ghosts mingle with the living, glimpsing the Witch City on the most important night of the year, October 31st.

One Night in Salem

Valdez, Bret

Crocker, Erin

Brewka-Clark, Nancy

Margay, Ellery D.

LeFever, Dan

Exquisite Aberrations

A familiar chill runs down your spine. You've been here before: the abandoned house on the hill, the dark hallway with the creaking floorboards, the ancient cemetery veiled in mist, the rutted pathway to a lonely place. You know these stories, or do you? These are the tales not told; the words pushed to the margins. These figures have been shrouded, forgotten, locked behind a creaking door, but now their stories will be told.
The authors of this anthology include writers from many different backgrounds spanning multiple continents. Within the pages of this book, you will experience traditionally gothic tales from truly unique points of view: trans, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ characters, people suffering from PTSD and other mental health conditions, and persons of color. $1 from each book sold will be donated to the ACLU.
Authors include: Ellery D. Margay, Die Booth, C. W. Blackwell, Allister Nelson, Patricia Correll, Nancy Brewka-Clark, Russell J. Dorn, Nicole Vasari, Dan Le Fever, Jaap Boeksestein, Cody D. Grady, Christopher Stanley, David Kotok, D.R. Bartlette, Joanna Logan-Costello, E.F. Sweetman, Joey Phoenix, Monique Bos
Stories Selected and Edited by: Laurie Moran and Amber Newberry

A familiar chill runs down your spine. You've been here before: the abandoned house on the hill, the dark hallway with the creaking floorboards, the ancient cemetery veiled in mist, the rutted pathway to a lonely place. You know these stories, or do you? These are the tales not told; the words pushed to the margins. These figures have been shrouded, forgotten, locked behind a creaking door, but now their stories will be told.
The authors of this anthology include writers from many different backgrounds spanning multiple continents. Within the pages of this book, you will experience traditionally gothic tales from truly unique points of view: trans, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ characters, people suffering from PTSD and other mental health conditions, and persons of color. Fall in love with gothic fiction with Exquisite Aberrations. $1 from each book sold will be donated to the ACLU.
Authors include: Ellery D. Margay, Die Booth, C. W. Blackwell, Allister Nelson, Patricia Correll, Nancy Brewka-Clark, Russell J. Dorn, Nicole Vasari, Dan Le Fever, Jaap Boeksestein, Cody D. Grady, Christopher Stanley, David Kotok, D.R. Bartlette, Joanna Logan-Costello, E.F. Sweetman, Joey Phoenix, Monique Bos
Stories Selected and Edited by: Laurie Moran and Amber Newberry

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