Telling ghost stories during the Yuletide season was not just something that Charles Dickens generated out of nowhere. There’s a long tradition of spook tales by firelight during the longest nights of the year. And here, at the little bookstore that’s bigger on the inside, we have your haunting needs covered!
The New England Horror Writers are an organization of local authors who put out an annual anthology of shivery literature. Quite a number of these authors have titles in our inventory and many have also done appearances and signings here.

To date, there are eight collections of stories, with a ninth volume on the horizon. Here are some of the names gracing the various tables of contents of the “Wicked” series volumes one through eight…
Barry Lee Dejasu * Bracken MacLeod *Christine Lajewski * Christopher Golden * Cindy O’Quinn * Curtis M. Lawson * D.E. Ladd * Dan Foley * Dan Szczesny Daniel R. Robichaud * David Bernard * Doungjai Gam Bepko * E.A. Black * Elaine Pascale * Emma Jane Shaw Gibbon * Errick Nunnally
Frank Raymond Michaels * GD Dearborn * Gillian Daniels * Hillary Monahan * Howard Odentz * J. Edwin Buja * James A. Moore * Jane Yolen * Jason Parent Jeffrey Thomas * Jennifer Williams * John C. Foster * John Goodrich * John Grover * K.H. Vaughan * Kali Ann Moulton * Kameryn James * Katherine Silva Kristi Petersen Schoonover * Larissa Glasser * L.L. Soares * Lindsay Moore * Lola J. Clemente * Mary Robles * Matt Bechtel * Matthew M. Bartlett
Morgan Silvia * Nick A. Zaino III * Nick Manzolillo * Patricia Gomes * Paul McMahon * Paul McNamee * Peter N. Dudar * Remy Flagg * Renee Mulhare
Renee S. DeCamillis * Richard Alan Scott * Rob Smales * Roxanne Dent * Sara Marks * Sidney Arcane * Steve Van Samson * Steven La Croix
Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert * Timothy P. Flynn * Tom Deady * Tracy L. Carbone * Trisha J. Wooldridge * Victoria Dalpe * William Carl

Thank you, as always, for making our shelves your destination.