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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She did it beautifully. Slowly, very slowly she raised her<br />
blue, blue eyes and long tawny lashes, and gasped a little as<br />
she caught sight of the king. She blushed the prettiest of pale<br />
pinks.<br />
“Am I so frightening?” laughed the king.<br />
“Your majesty, I am overwhelmed,” she breathed, whereupon<br />
Fero let out a great guffaw.<br />
<strong>The</strong> king waved Fero away in annoyance, and asked the<br />
girl to tell him about herself. Tremblingly she told him of a<br />
quiet life of study, of books and music, and dreaming of being<br />
one day permitted the glory of a sight of the king. She had<br />
not thought beyond this point; this was the summit of her<br />
hopes and desires in life.<br />
Whereupon Fero laughed and clapped and cried, “She lies!<br />
She lies! <strong>The</strong> jade, the harlot! She lies - with other men, she<br />
lies! I’ve found you out, I’ve found you out!”<br />
And he grinned and gaped at the king, only for the grin to<br />
fade as he saw the stone of his majesty’s face. For a moment<br />
it could have gone either way, but then the girl’s father spoke<br />
up.<br />
“Sire, my daughter’s honour has been impugned,” he said<br />
with quiet dignity. “I beg your majesty that she be examined,<br />
that her chastity will be in no doubt, and her fair name at no<br />
risk from evil-wishers.”<br />
And he glared at Fero.<br />
<strong>The</strong> king could hardly refuse, and called the royal physician,<br />
who was in on it. He examined the girl - examined her,<br />
according to the servants, in great depth and with much giggling<br />
and many gasps of joy. He pronounced her Virgo intacta,<br />
and the king was overjoyed.<br />
“But Sire, she lies!” protested Fero at exactly the wrong<br />
moment, and was thrown in the dungeons. Later the king<br />
relented a little and sent poor Fero to live with a dull minor<br />
aristocrat and his equally dull wife, far from the Capital.<br />
Fero’s new master and mistress were as honest as they<br />
were boring, and few of the jester’s skills came into play at his