1. "Dinner Party" by Jo Stys
As I looked around, I saw evidence of the building style of the late 1800s. Wide wood plank floor boards, for instance, and the narrow doorways. I was so engrossed in architectural details I gave a start when my husband, Roger, whispered in my ear, "Ghosts!"
2. "Uninvited Guests" by Christopher Pigott
John began in a low voice, "A hundred years ago this cottage was the home of Mr Rafferty, the local butcher." John paused for effect. I recalled again that both Gillian and her husband Howard were vegetarians.
3. "Dinner Where Demons Once Lived" by Bello Musa Dankano
The host noticed our apprehension and added, "Everything was pulled down by the first buyer after the death of the original owner. He was said to be Greek who traveled around the world dealing in precious stones. He finally settled on this island because of its beauty and isolation then."
4. "Ascension" by Marcus Essary
Finishing his statement to the camera, Marko Macguire, NBC reporter, and the cameraman, Edwardo Sanchez, holding his HD NBC news camera, turned nervously towards a well-dressed, smug looking man beside them, Stanley Tate; the man who, not two months ago, lost the presidential election.
5. "Halloween" by Julian Tschech
I heard the church bell ring, it was certainly midnight now. But there was another sound I didn’t know, a creaking, a groaning. I froze as the sounds started to become louder. Every room had one bed, thus I was completely alone.
6. "A Tremendous Investment" by Brandon Abbott
Since our arrival, conversation had been scarce. What little had been said was limited to the obligatory greetings and few brief discourses between my fiancé and the fragile apparition who introduced herself as Mrs. Clairmont.
7. "The Intruder" by B. Scot Holladay
Our host, in a black suit and blood red tie, stood to his full, towering height, I would guess six five, and walked across the room for a weathered book, finishing the story of this house. "The Sandersons were eating when there was a ring at the door. Xander was the unlucky one to answer."
8. "Kristi Sanderson and the Pitch" by Cecelia Holladay
It all started about twenty years ago when a young girl survived hidden for years on this small patch of earth, you see over yonder, that house it belonged to the horribly murdered Sanderson family . . . one of the daughters was never found, presumed dead for years, but today we know she made it out alive.
9. "Kristi Sanderson and Drake" by Cecelia Holladay
I never dreamed that such things were possible. I didn't even believe in ghosts, much less my dead child having the ability to come back to me. Twenty years ago I barely escaped with my life and a stone my father allowed me to admire that night.
10. "Under a Moonlit Swamp" by Paul Resop
The travelers would stay five or six at a time in the Great Room, which, long before being torn down and rebuilt into a garage, was a large, open floored room with a high ceiling, void of any decoration or lighting besides the six head sized holes in the west wall, providing a glance at the swamp line and the low clouds that swam over the top of it.