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Ariadne Blayde

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Ariadne Blayde is a playwright and fiction writer. Her play “The Other Room” won the VSA Playwright Discovery Award and has been produced hundreds of times around the world. Her plays have been shortlisted by Lark Playwright’s Week, The Tennessee Williams Festival, and more, and her fiction has been published in Parhelion Literary Magazine, the Fountain Magazine, and various anthologies. Her story “Shinichi’s Tricycle” won the 2020 Quantum Shorts Competition’s People’s Choice Award. Ariadne moonlights as a ghost tour guide in New Orleans. Her debut novel Ash Tuesday, about the ghosts of New Orleans’ French Quarter and the eccentric outcasts who tell their stories for a living, is available wherever books are sold.

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"Have you ever seen a ghost?"

That’s the question I get asked almost every time I give a Haunted History tour, and the answer is… complicated. You may have heard me tell the story of my uncanny experience on one of my earliest ghost tours, years ago. I spent the first 30 minutes of the tour chatting with a precocious (and morbid) little boy, who excitedly told me all about his obsession with true crime, horror, and the paranor Read more of this blog post »

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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5)

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