Phantom Constellations is Daniel Braum’s fifth full short story collection of dark, strange tales, exploring the metamorphic tension between the supernatural and the psychological, out now in trade paperback and eBook from Cemetery Dance Publications. Each of these stories, set in locations around the corner and around the world, evokes the Twilight Zone sense of the unreal and that mysterious, unsettling ambiguity found in classic weird and horror fiction.
It is a book of stories of haunted people, ghosts, and the Phantom Constellations all around them, bravely — and sometimes blindly — traversing the phantasmagoric happenings and psychological challenges in situations full of danger, uncertainty, grief, and tragedy, alongside a sense of hope, longing, mystery, and wonder. Appearing in the collection are four never before published stories written exclusively for the book, along with ten more of Braum’s tales including from the Shivers anthology series and a wealth of hard-to-find publications from around the world.
In today’s post is one of the original stories from Phantom Constellations titled “The Exorcist’s Red-Haired Daughter.”Continue Reading
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