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I write non-fiction and fiction. Check out my non-fiction articles on Horrornews.net and Horrified. My fiction includes The Drowning Game: A Story of the Supernatural, A Scream Full of Ghosts, and the just-released Jane Nightshade's Serial Encounters. I've also been published/dramatized in more than 20 anthologies and/or podcasts.
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	Jane Nightshade's Serial Encounters by Jane Nightshade (Goodreads Author), Mord McGhee (Goodreads Author), N.J. Gallegos (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HellBound Highway: Anthology of Traveling Terror by Jane Nightshade (Goodreads Author), Ann O’Mara Heyward (Goodreads Author), James H. Longmore (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drowning Game: A Novella of the Supernatural Plus Six Other Spine-Tingling Tales 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Scream Full of Ghosts 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosts Never Leave 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices in the Darkness: Tales from the Steem Blockchain (Steem Fiction Book 1) by Jane Nightshade (Goodreads Author), Brendan Weinhold, Bruce Arbuckle 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rockin' Around the Murder Tree: A Christmas Horror Story 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthology 2 by Jane Nightshade (Goodreads Author), Veronica Montes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lisa Renee (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My latest published story is out in the above anthology, edited by the wonderful Aaron Crocker from Campfire Publishing. The title is Imp Soup, and the subject is a cursed antique soup server, and what happens to you when you put soup in it (it's not nice).

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Five Star Contender for next year's Stoker Award for Single-Author Collections. The title refers to the opening story, "Cleveland," which is about a psychically gifted bird painter who can see, for a brief time, the corpses of long-dead women who hav ...more
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