Jul 14, 2020 | Bloody Book Club, Mysterious Places, Tales of the Supernatural, The Writing Life
They’re ba-ack. Reluctant ghostbusters Jackson Stone and Kate Carlsson have returned in a fifth supernatural mystery, Mask of Ghosts, and this time, they’re going to Bali! No good deed goes unpunished. Roxi thought the Balinese mask would make the perfect...
Jul 8, 2020 | Mysterious Places
When one thinks of eerie places to explore, Disneyworld doesn’t top the list…but perhaps it should. The Magic Kingdom has abandoned a number of theme parks, perhaps most famously in Japan, where the Nara Dreamland languished after squabbles over licensing...
Oct 23, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
Please welcome my multi-talented author friend, Damyanti Biswas, as she shares this chilling true story of one of India’s mysterious places. Delhi is a sprawling modern metropolis, and its urban jungle of steel and glass looks unlikely to be haunted, but as I...
Sep 17, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, The Writing Life
When the Winnipeg International Writers Festival selected me as one of four dark-fiction authors to stay overnight at a haunted house, I was excited, but I didn’t have any expectations–at least not on the haunted side of things. Still, it was an amazing...
Apr 10, 2019 | Mysterious Places
Is there anything creepier than an abandoned asylum? How about an abandoned asylum filled with paintings like this? Brr! Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione let his imaginative talents run wild in a psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy–turning the already...
Feb 27, 2019 | Mysterious Places
One of the best things about setting novels in exotic locations is I actually get to visit those places. There are a couple of exceptions: I’ve never experienced life on an oil rig in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, and I’ve never been to Dyatlov Pass....
