Hildie at the Ghost Shore

By Paula Cappa

Hildie is the mistress of Runecraft. Come meet her in Belgium and experience the magic of the Runes, Sleipnir, and Odin. This is a historical and supernatural mystery, a short story that was originally published at Fiction365. If you like quiet little mystery stories with a flavor of the past, and a dash of the spirit world, Hildie will bring you there.

"Richly atmospheric and hauntingly imaginative. Hildie at the Ghost Shore is a polished gem of a story." Anna Elliott, author of The Witch Queen's Secret.

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: 9781301091287

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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HILDIE AT THE GHOST SHORE

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A Short Story

By

PAULA CAPPA

Copyright 2015 by Paula Cappa. All rights reserved.

Hildie at the Ghost Shore

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A Short Story by

Paula Cappa

Copyright © 2014 by Paula Cappa.

Publisher’s Note

This short story was originally published by Fiction365 in February 2013.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, locations, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without prior written permission of the publisher and copyright owners.

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Hildie at the Ghost Shore

Silent and soft, the snow falls. The dim vales beyond are restful. In the shadows, Hildie walks through fairy woods, every branch hanging with mounds of snow, white as cow’s milk. She is mindful not to carry her lantern too close to