The Haunted Traveler Vol. 1 Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of The Haunted Traveler; a roaming anthology seeking to collect the strange and the wild stories that we all carry. Those words hidden in the deep dark that linger around. Weasel Press is proud to have released this first collection of material and is excited to do more anthologies in the future. The Haunted Traveler is a non-profit, Horror and Science Fiction anthology that accepts a wide variety of art media such as photography, short fiction, creative non-fiction, digital artwork and more. Our anthology publishes twice a year. To find out more information about our submission process, please review our submission guidelines. Our first issue was released on March 28, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited to feature the explosive talent that has been submitted to us. Our idea is to have an anthology roaming around parts of the world with a collection of frightening and strange stories; a mysterious anthology with a collection of ghosts.
Welcome to the first issue of The Haunted Traveler; a roaming anthology seeking to collect the strange and the wild stories that we all carry. Those words hidden in the deep dark that linger around. Weasel Press is proud to have released this first collection of material and is excited to do more anthologies in the future. The Haunted Traveler is a non-profit, Horror and Science Fiction anthology that accepts a wide variety of art media such as photography, short fiction, creative non-fiction, digital artwork and more. Our anthology publishes twice a year. To find out more information about our submission process, please review our submission guidelines. Our first issue was released on March 28, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited to feature the explosive talent that has been submitted to us. Our idea is to have an anthology roaming around parts of the world with a collection of frightening and strange stories; a mysterious anthology with a collection of ghosts.
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15<br />
On Being <strong>Haunted</strong><br />
Irving A. Greenfield<br />
“Sure. All of us are haunted.”<br />
That was what Dr. Bruce Thantos said at lunch. He and<br />
I were in the faculty dining room at Bridge College; a long<br />
deep room with large glass windows on one end that overlooked<br />
the Narrows and the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn<br />
directly across the ribbon-like body of water separating the<br />
two boroughs. From anywhere close to the windows, the<br />
Verrazano Bridge was clearly visible to the South; and the<br />
Twin Towers of the World Trade Center would have been<br />
visible to the North if part of the hill on which the college sat<br />
wasn’t in the way.<br />
On a bright, sunny, day when the sky was emerald blue<br />
or slightly smudged over with high cirrus clouds turning it<br />
more aqua than blue, it was a delight to sit there and enjoy<br />
the urban vista. It was even a delight when the sky was cloud<br />
covered, and the tops of the bridge towers were obscured by<br />
swirling fog.<br />
I particularly enjoyed the view when various bulk carrying<br />
ships–tankers and such rode at anchor within the frame<br />
s of the windows. <strong>The</strong>y added global dimension to the scene,<br />
and offered a reminder of that time when I was a seaman on<br />
a T2-tanker–a type that sometimes lay anchored in the Narrows<br />
waiting to be summoned to a nearby off-loading facil-
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