What is Between the Darkness and the Dawn?
Do you like historical mysteries? Something a little bit literary, a little bit supernatural, a little bit ghost story?
"Between the Darkness and the Dawn" is a ghost story that takes place at Nathaniel Hawthorne's home in Concord, Massachusetts. Some of you may know or have visited the Old Manse. It's a charming antique house where Hawthorne wrote his "Mosses From an Old Manse." Today it's a museum with tours of the house, orchard, and the Old North Bridge.
"Between the Darkness and the Dawn" is a short story just published at Whistling Shade Literary Journal in their October issue.
Edward Fane is our narrator and he's visiting Concord, specifically the Old Manse. Why? To verify that ghosts are truly haunting the Old Manse.
Read it at my web site at the free link.
The author of "Between the Darkness and the Dawn is ...well, can you guess?
http://paulacappa.wordpress.com/short...
"Between the Darkness and the Dawn" is a ghost story that takes place at Nathaniel Hawthorne's home in Concord, Massachusetts. Some of you may know or have visited the Old Manse. It's a charming antique house where Hawthorne wrote his "Mosses From an Old Manse." Today it's a museum with tours of the house, orchard, and the Old North Bridge.
"Between the Darkness and the Dawn" is a short story just published at Whistling Shade Literary Journal in their October issue.
Edward Fane is our narrator and he's visiting Concord, specifically the Old Manse. Why? To verify that ghosts are truly haunting the Old Manse.
Read it at my web site at the free link.
The author of "Between the Darkness and the Dawn is ...well, can you guess?
http://paulacappa.wordpress.com/short...
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Thank you, Werner. I had a really fun time writing this story. No, I'm not familiar with Stephen Lawhead's work. I'll be certain to look into it now. Thanks for the suggestion. What is amazing to me is that when I wrote this story, I placed the ley lines where I needed to for the action and characters and created the strongest ley line on the bridge. But I have since found out in speaking with the tour director of the Old Manse, that there is indeed evidence of ley lines in the orchard at the back of the Old Manse property. Apparently they have EMF evidence that north, south, east and west ley lines meet near a rock at the center of the orchard. I had no idea at the time of writing the story that this was true. They only just discovered this evidence this past year. But with so many ghost stories surrounding the Old Manse, I shouldn't be surprised.
I've read and like The Blithedale Romance, and I knew that Hawthorne used his experiences at Brook Farm as material for constructing the novel. But I never knew until now that Zenobia's suicide had any referent in real-life experience, so I definitely learned something through this read! (Have you read any of Stephen Lawhead's Bright Empires series? His premise is also the supposed properties of ley lines for facilitating inter-dimensional/time travel.)