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Today is C
is for Cursed Objects
Chris has very graciously allowed me to participate
in the A to Z Blogging Challenge this year with a guest post. She even let me
pick which letter I wanted!
Thanks, Chris! Happy to be here!
Why
the letter C?
Well, I have a new anthology out: Shadow People and Cursed Objects:
13 Tales of Terror Based on True Stories…or are they?)
S was taken or I would’ve picked that one. However,
since there’s also a prominent “C” word in the title, I decided that would work
too.
What’s
Shadow People and Cursed Objects About?
Great question!
It’s a baker’s dozen of tantalizing tales of terror
based on true stories…or are they? (In retrospect, “T” might’ve been a good
letter to choose too, eh?)
Anyway, Shadow
People and Cursed Objects is a reader participation book. At the end of
each story this appears: “Based on a true story…or not? Find out in the Truth
or Fiction section.”
The Truth or Fiction section of the book is where
all is revealed.
The fun is trying to decide if the story was based
on a true story or not…before you look to find out the answer. (No fair
peeking. It’s bad luck to look ahead. With a book filled with accounts of
ghosts and cursed objects, you wouldn’t want to take your chances, would you?)
Includes
6 1/2 Cursed Objects Stories
There are 13 stories in Shadow People and Cursed Objects. They alternate between ones about
haunted objects and ones about ghosts.
The anthology starts with a cursed objects story:
“The Busby Chair” by Alice J. Black. It’s about a cursed chair rumored to bring
sudden death to anyone who sits in it, and a boy, desperate to impress his
friends with his bravery and bravado, who tempts fate.
Then there’s “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” by Emerian Rich.
It’s about a young woman who is enchanted by a necklace, but instead of
bringing pleasure it brings her nothing but trouble and heartache.
“The Black Flowers” by Barry Charman tells the tale
of an empty coffin made from the wood of a hanging tree that needs burying –but
the coffin might not be empty after all.
S. Mickey Lin takes readers through a haunted
looking glass with his tale, “Lady Winters’ Mirror.”
“Doomsday, Every Night at Five” by Evan Dicken
appears mid-way through the book. It combined both ghosts and cursed objects
with a story about a little girl, a television set, and her dead grandfather
who haunts it.
An audience member ventures backstage to meet the
magician and his life-life dummy, who she learns is really the puppet master
and not the puppet in Carl Barker’s “Murder for Dummies.”
Then there’s my story, “The Mannequin in the Middle
of the Road.” (Written as C. Le Mroch, though, my horror nom de plume.) When a
mannequin proves to be a road hazard, a conscientious driver puts him in his
trunk –which proves to be a mistake when the mannequin starts banging to be let
out.
Shadow People and Cursed Objects Giveaway
Since Chris was so kind to allow me to guest post as
she participates in the A to Z Blogging Challenge, I figured the polite thing to
do was not to show up empty handed.
I set up an Amazon Giveaway for a paperback copy of Shadow People and Cursed Objects. To
give you an even better chance of winning, I’m only posting the link here. Here
it is: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/e53e58775af0a4ec
All you need to enter is:
1. * An
Amazon account, and
2. * To
watch a short video. (It’s the Shadow
People and Cursed Objects book trailer, which was created by Ken Teutsch.
He has a shadow people story in the book, “The Storm on Promised Land Road.”)
There’s NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. (Just the investment
of 43 seconds of your time to watch the trailer.)
The giveaway ends Apr 6, 2016 11:59 PM PDT, or when
all prizes are claimed. See Official Rules http://amzn.to/GArules
for more.
** Good luck if you enter. And if you win, I hope you
enjoy the book. Be sure to leave a review with your thoughts.
Sounds like a wonderful anthology! Congrats and best wishes for your success.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Jacqueline!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an interesting read.
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