Tag Archives: Ghosts

New Release: Toran: Gateway to the Other Side

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Linda Andrews

Chapter 2 Adrienne West focused on her breathing. In. Out. She could get through this. It was just a lunch. Lunch in downtown Phoenix near where her husband had been killed. One hundred eighty-four days, thirteen hours, and fourteen minutes … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun Fact

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Linda Andrews

Either there is a peg-legged ghost in my house or one of my cats has a shoe fetish.

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This month’s reading

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Linda Andrews

This month, while everything is Christmas in July, I’m beginning to get in the spirit of Halloween with a book that is a little bit mystery and some ghosts. And since I didn’t want you to think I had gone … Continue reading →

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House Hunting with a Twist

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Linda Andrews

So the hubbinator and I have been watching the BBC programme Escape to the Continent on Netflix. On the show, folks are looking to leave behind the UK to settle elsewhere in Europe. We especially like the ones where the … Continue reading →

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The Fades

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Linda Andrews

I finally finished my manuscript and so decided to take the weekend off to binge on movies and other mindless things. And so while perusing for things, amazon prime reccommended a show called the fades. In it, a 17 year … Continue reading →

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Decorating for Halloween

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Linda Andrews

Yes, it is my favorite time of year. The weather is cooler (below 100F) and the cactus leaves (that would be thorns to you outsiders) start to change color. Okay, I made the last part up. For the most part, … Continue reading →

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Ghosts and Halloween

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Linda Andrews

I suppose it is only natural that ghosts became associated with Halloween. After all, the holiday was borrowed liberally from the Celts. At the end of the harvest, when the Earth began to die (ie winter set in) the Celts … Continue reading →

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Ghosts and the Victorians

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Linda Andrews

In 1848 two sisters, Catherine and Margaret Fox, claimed to have talked to the spirit of a man. Together they devised a tapping system to discover that the man, a peddlar, had been murdered and buried in the cellar. The … Continue reading →

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Review: Heartless by Gail Carringer

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Linda Andrews

Now eight months pregnant, Alexia Tarbotti, Lady Maccon, is still protecting Queen and country with her fancy, yet practical parasol. You see a mad ghost was inconsiderate enough to pop up in her house and relay a death threat against … Continue reading →

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Interview with Pamela Kinney

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Linda Andrews

Ghosts Among Us “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!” William Shakespeare Ghosts are among us. Most of then living go about their daily business, unaware or not believing that loved ones … Continue reading →

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