The Haunting of Jezebeth

By Paula Cappa

Deborah knows that shadows can’t survive in the twisting Lantz Gorge where her family of witches lived. The gardens are grizzled now. And the mountain Jezebeth holds the secret to the curse. This is a short story of mystery, family secrets, and redemption, originally published by Twilight Times. "The author did an excellent job of reeling me in with her elegant style of imagery and beautiful descriptions in this spooky short story." ---Novel Novellas

Author Paula Cappa is the recipient of an Eric Hoffer Book Award, Readers' Favorite International Bronze Medal for supernatural suspense, and a Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paula Cappa
• Release date: Aug 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301693795

Paula Cappa

Paula Cappa is the recipient of the Gold Medal at Global Book Awards, the Chanticleer Book Award, and American Book Fest's Best Books Award Finalist for her novel Greylock. She also earned the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Award, The Silver Medal at Global Book Awards, The Readers' Favorite International Bronze Medal for Supernatural Suspense, and is a Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner in Outstanding Fiction. She is the author of Greylock, The Dazzling Darkness, and Night Sea Journey—print editions published by Crispin Books, Milwaukee WI. Night Sea Journey was featured as an on-air reading at Riverwest Radio, Fearless Reader Radio in Wisconsin. Cappa's short fiction has appeared in ParABnormal Magazine, Coffin Bell Literary Journal, Unfading Daydream, Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, Mystery Time, and Human Writes Literary Journal. She is a freelance copy editor and writes a short story blog, Reading Fiction, at paulacappa.wordpress.com. Paula Cappa is Co-Chair of the Pound Ridge Authors Society in Pound Ridge, NY.

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The Haunting of Jezebeth

A Short Story

By

Paula Cappa

Copyright © 2014, Paula Cappa

All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced in any form without permission from the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

This is a work of fiction.

The Haunting of Jezebeth was originally published by Twilight Times Ezine of Twilight Times Books.

Story cover designed by Gina Casey. Visit her web site at ginacaseydesign.com.

The Haunting of Jezebeth

Careful and soft, downward through the sunlight, not a leaf falling, the noon breeze spreads across my face. With it came a silken voice. A solitary word breathed out, the m’s and the r’s nascent and free. I stood at the foot of the Jezebeth Hills, my eyes straining to see the jagged rock summit. I remembered light-footed roses growing among the clefts there.

I approached the grayed house with a flip inside my stomach and rubbed it to remain calm. No garland of