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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ity.<br />
But the deeper you went into the Faculty Dining Room the<br />
light faded into a gloominess that wasn’t completely done<br />
away with by the electric lights. It was here the luncheon<br />
buffet was set up. If I were the suspicious or paranoid type, I<br />
would certainly make the connection between the quality of<br />
the food and the ambience in which was served.<br />
<strong>The</strong> day or, more specifically, the time of day that Dr.<br />
Thantos made his pronouncement, the weather conditions<br />
became a dramatic backdrop for it. <strong>The</strong> sun was gone and<br />
dark gray-clouds piled into huge dark castles or whatever<br />
shape your imagination assigned to them. For me it was kind<br />
of Rorschach Test in the sky with no one recording the results.<br />
Dr. Thantos was a big man, with a graying beard. He taught<br />
courses on religion and one called “Death and Beyond.” His<br />
voice came from his chest, deep and resonant. If you were at a<br />
table with him or anywhere else in his presence, there would<br />
be no way to avoid giving him—if not your full attention—at<br />
least enough of it to be aware of what he was saying.<br />
Having said “that all of us are haunted,” he immediately<br />
garnered my attention. But the look on his face and the twinkle<br />
I caught in his brown eyes, told me he was off on one of<br />
his ego trips in the guise of an intellectual discussion.<br />
He let his comment sit out there hanging over the table<br />
like one of the clouds over the Brooklyn shoreline. No one,<br />
and there were three other people at the table, said anything<br />
that would have turned the comment into a conversation.<br />
Dr. Kay Winston, a Professor of English Literature, was too<br />
ethereal to be bound by the conventional law of gravity. Dr.<br />
Paul Devlin, also a Professor of English Literature, concentrated<br />
his energies on Irish Literature - - a kind of cultural<br />
mania. <strong>The</strong> fifth individual at the table was Dr. Annette<br />
Shuss, Chair of the Humanities department, and the Chair<br />
of the English Department. Her specialty was Medieval English<br />
Literature. But her real interest lay in the political side