He's an entrepreneur that wants to open a Halloween haunted house there. There have always been rumors about the house-something about a witch and a haunting. Read moreīachelor's Grove is a small town featuring a house backing onto a cemetery. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job at a medical association, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle.įor information on his fiction, art and music, visit. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels COVENANT, SACRIFICE, THE 13TH and SIREN, and the short story collections DEADLY NIGHTLUSTS, CREEPTYCH, NEEDLES & SINS, VIGILANTES OF LOVE and CAGE OF BONES & OTHER DEADLY OBSESSIONS. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. she doesn’t intend to stay that way.įLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Because while the witch may have been dead. There’s a dark, horrible ritual to fulfill. She needs people to fill her house on Halloween. And behind the rumors is a real ghost who will do whatever it takes to ensure the house reopens. There are noises in the walls, and fresh blood on the floor: secrets that would be better not to discover. Soon he’ll learn that fresh wood and nails can’t keep decades of rumors down.
But rumors won’t stop carpenter Mike Kostner from rehabbing the place as a haunted house attraction.
Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. "The House by the Cemetery involves everything that a horror aficionado could ever want-an undead witch, comic relief, a haunted house dedicated to obscure and not-so obscure horror films, and lots and lots of gore…Indeed, The House by the Cemetery could easily be transcribed into an action-packed screenplay" - The New York Journal of Books
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