Although this is the third Pine Deep story included in this collection, it is unique in three important ways. Firstly because it is a prequel, of sorts, to the Pine Deep Trilogy. Second, because it was the first Pine Deep story I ever wrote. And third, because it was the lead story in the first issue of a wonderful horror webzine, Nightmare Magazine, edited by my friend John Joseph Adams. Nightmare Magazine is a horror companion to John’s award-winning Lightspeed science fiction e-zine. I encourage you to try both of them. And in the meantime, welcome once more to Pine Deep. Property Condemned -1- The house was occupied, but no one lived there. That’s how Malcolm Crow thought about it. Houses like the Croft place were never really empty. Like most of the kids in Pine Deep, Crow knew that there were ghosts. Even the tourists knew about the ghosts. It was that kind of town. All of the tourist brochures of the town had pictures of ghosts on them. Happy, smiling, Casper the Friendly Ghost sorts of ghosts.
What do You think about Whistling Past The Graveyard?
