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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45<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fool<br />
Cathy Bryant<br />
I was surprised when Andy announced that he was thinking<br />
of selling the Hall.<br />
“I thought you said it was a goldmine,” I said, raising an<br />
eyebrow.<br />
“Well, John, I thought it was,” he replied in even more lugubrious<br />
tones than usual.<br />
Less than a year ago he had been telling me what a genius<br />
idea it was, and how it would shore up his marriage and his<br />
life and make him a pile of money - all in the sort of voice<br />
most people would use to describe a funeral. That was just<br />
what Andy was like. Now, however, he sounded even more<br />
miserable - as if he had been describing his own funeral.<br />
“Go on then,” I said equably. “Tell me what happened. Did<br />
you get all the chambermaids pregnant, or something?”<br />
Andy shot me a venomous look, and sighed. He had bought<br />
the crumbling Hall, former home of an agreeably dwindled<br />
disagreeable minor aristocrat with neither sense nor money,<br />
done it up, and turned it into the Manor Hall Hotel. Posh,<br />
attractive and set in what the website called “rolling acres<br />
of stunning traditional English countryside”, it had looked<br />
like a winner. How do acres roll, I wonder? And what would<br />
untraditional English countryside look like? And what had<br />
gone wrong?<br />
“I’ll tell you, but you won’t believe me,” said Andy, looking<br />
glum.