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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gave a huge feast in the Great Hall - we knocked through a<br />
couple of old parlours, and put in a fake marbled fireplace -<br />
and waited for the ghost. It was dead nice in the hall by firelight,<br />
looked just right - sort of gloomy but exciting.<br />
Well one young lad, the idiot, had decided that this would<br />
be the ideal time to propose to his girlfriend, who was ghost<br />
crazy. So after the pumpkin pie and parkin and blood red<br />
wine and cups of coffin (I came up with that, though it’s<br />
always a pain pretending that you’ve heard the joke for the<br />
first time when someone asks for ‘de-coffin-ated’ and laughs<br />
themselves silly), the lad gets down on one knee.<br />
“Darling Tina,” he says, clutching her hand, “I love you so<br />
much.”<br />
At this point we heard a rich chuckle, though we thought<br />
it might be one of the other guests. You know, nervous laughter.<br />
Anyway, the lad carries on.<br />
“I will never be happy without you, and I beg you to do me<br />
the honour of becoming my wife.”<br />
She looks shocked, and so do the rest of us, because there’s<br />
the jester. He’s not like the photo on the website; he’s a little<br />
fella about five foot high, very thin, in red and white. bells<br />
jingling. His face is all lit up with a fiendish glee, and he’s<br />
laughing like a drain. He has a little black beard like, I dunno,<br />
Pan or the Devil, and he says, “He loves you! That’s rich!<br />
That’s rich? Honour of being his wife? <strong>The</strong> honour would be<br />
all yours; a rich jest. Very rich! I’ve found you out!”<br />
It turned out that the girlfriend had money and the lad<br />
didn’t, and he had ‘borrowed’ considerable sums from her.<br />
Hence the word ‘rich’ used over and over.<br />
Well, she looked at him sadly and drooped, and he stormed<br />
and swore and threatened to sue, and they left that night.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other guests were thrilled to have seen a ghost, though<br />
many of them didn’t believe it, and thought it was a computer<br />
image of some kind. I always let the sceptics examine the<br />
place, but of course they didn’t find anything.<br />
Anyway, the guests were saying what an awful thing it was