Spooky Short Stories

So what happens after you die? Do you go to heaven…or hell? Or do you go to a special place fashioned just for you and based on the life you'd lived in the real world? Based on how you treated people? What you did to them?And do ghosts exist? Do they roam the earth and plague the living, persuade them to do things they shouldn't do?Two brothers and their tale follow…their journey through life and death. Their reward for the lives they'd lived.Do you believe in ghosts? Some do.

What would you do to live forever, stay young forever? To find true love again? And if you were a white witch with the magical powers to make it happen…and the secret of how to do it, would you? So when the banshee comes calling for you one rainy dark night you'll do what you have to do to get what you desire the most. More time.

Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going with her husband, sister and brother-in-law to see the Grand Canyon…even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there, couldn't bear to get too close to the edge. She watched people balancing on one foot, acting foolish, taking photos, oblivious of the death waiting below them at their feet. Their careless antics made her dizzy, took her breath away. Scared her.Especially when the woman beside her relates the story of a small child that fell into the Canyon to her death the day before. Many people died that way. Over the edge. Many also died down inside the Canyon. Hikers. Lost people. People on the river going through the rapids.Then she sees a young girl go over the edge and no one will believe her.For there was no child that had died–that day anyway. Was she seeing things that weren't there…or was there another explanation?

Six contemporary spooky short stories:GHOST BROTHER…So what happens after you die? Do you go to heaven, or hell? Or do you go to a special place fashioned just for you based on the life you'd lived in the real world? Based on how you treated people? What you did to them?And do ghosts exist? Do they roam the earth and plague the living, persuade them to do things they shouldn't do?Two brothers and their tale follow; their journey through life and death.Do you believe in ghosts? Some do.RUNNING WITH THE TRAIN…Sarah has always been lonely. Searching for a love she's begun to believe will never come. Her family and friends depend, need her…but they can't give her what she wants. True, eternal love. Like the wolves have.So she goes on an adventure of a lifetime to the Grand Canyon; rides the train from Williams to the South Rim and sees these huge wolves running alongside in the evening twilight; scurrying unbelievably below on the Canyon's ledges among the trees. She's told there are no wolves but she hears their haunting cries. No one else sees or hears them. Just her.Has her loneliness made her crazy?THE BANSHEE AND THE WITCH…What would you do to live forever, stay young forever? To find true love again?And if you were a white witch with the magical powers to make it happen…and the secret of how to do it, would you?So when the banshee comes calling for you one rainy dark night you'll do what you have to do to get what you desire the most. More time.TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE…Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going with her husband, sister and brother-in-law to see the Grand Canyon…even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there, couldn't bear to get too close to the edge. She watched people balancing on one foot, acting foolish, taking photos, oblivious of the death waiting below them. It scared her.Especially when a woman relates a story of a small child that fell into the Canyon the day before. Over the edge.Then she sees a young girl go over the rim and no one will believe her.For there was no child that had died–that day anyway.Was she seeing things that weren't there, or was there another explanation?IN THIS HOUSE…Does true love last forever...even after death?NIGHT CARNIVAL…A tale of a carnival, vampires...and love. About Kathryn Meyer Griffith…Since childhood I've been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I'd already begun writing novels at 21, almost fifty years ago now, and have had thirty-one (romantic horror, horror novels, romantic SF horror, romantic suspense, romantic time travel, historical romance, thrillers, non-fiction short story collection, and murder mysteries) previous novels and thirteen short stories published from various traditional publishers since 1984. But, I've gone into self-publishing in a big way since 2012; and upon getting all my previous books' full rights back for the first time have self-published all of them. My five Dinosaur Lake novels and Spookie Town Murder Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Ghosts Beneath Us, Witches Among Us, What Lies Beneath the Graves, All Those Who Came Before, When the Fireflies Returned) are my best-sellers.I've been married to Russell for over forty-three years; have a son, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois. We have a quirky cat, Sasha, and the three of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I've been an artist, and a folk/classic rock singer in my youth with my late brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I'll probably write stories until the day I die…or until my memory goes.2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *Finalist* for her horror novel The Last Vampire ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * Finalist * for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.*All Kathryn Meyer Griffith's 31 novels and 13 short sto