Tagged “Ghost Stories Magazine”
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He Paints with a Phantom Hand
In the October 1929 issue of Ghost Stories, which contains both "Monster in the Cellar" and "An UNEARTHLY Stowaway," I spotted the following ad: How an Artist Came Back to Finish His Work Robert Swain Gifford, a well-known painter of...
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Mr. Haggard's Strange Story
As of the the last piece ("An UNEARTHLY Stowaway"), I've posted all the Stuart Palmer Ghost Stories writing that I could find online. But I'm not done! There are a few other significant pieces that I've requested from various libraries around...
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An Unearthly Stowaway
The latest piece in The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer comes from the same issue as the last one—and for some reason, both of them are under pen names. An UNEARTHLY Stowaway is another "true" eerie tale, written under the name...
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The Monster in the Cellar, and more Stuart Palmer Information
I've posted the latest story in The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer: the second tale of Karl Brandt, "ghost-layer." I've also learned more interesting information about Palmer and his time with Ghost Stories. In The Monster in the Cellar,...
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Specter in the New Hotel
The next piece in The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is also supposed to be a non-fiction article. In actuality, it's a fanciful embellishment of a real set of events that occurred at an elegant New York residence hotel in 1903. The Specter in the...
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How a Spirit Corrected the Standard Dictionary
The latest contribution to The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is an ostensibly non-fiction article, from the June 1929 issue of Ghost Stories. In How a Spirit Corrected the Standard Dictionary, Palmer relates how the ghost of Henry Ward Beecher...
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The Red Curse of the Mummy
The next story in The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is up! In The Red Curse of the Mummy, Ted Orchards recounts his experiences during an expedition to excavate the tomb of the Pharoah Amenophis (Akhenaten). It did not go well. The story's author...
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Seven Gray Wolves
I've just posted the next story in my series The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer. In Seven Gray Wolves, Frank Meadock runs a small sheep ranch in a remote area of Montana. It's a dangerous life, both for Frank's family and for his flock. But...
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A Sleeper Bewitched
The next entry in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer series is the first of two (possibly three) stories about Karl Brandt, "ghost layer." A Sleeper Bewitched: Mr. Crane has been asleep for a month. No one knows why; no one can wake him...
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The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer
A new literary excavation project: ghost stories, articles, and an occult investigator mini-series! Stuart Palmer (1905-1968) was a prolific writer, active in the crime fiction community from the 1930s into the 1960s. He was a well-regarded practitioner...
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