Shelter From the Storm - A Ghost Story for Christmas

By Barrymore Tebbs

When a winter storm forces his 1952 Buick Roadmaster into a ditch on Christmas Eve, Walter Spradlin seeks shelter at the home of Amanda Baldwin and her daughter Violet.

Mistaking Spradlin for their awaited guest, the dashing young Hoyt Truitt, Amanda and Violet proceed to tell a tale of violent passions and dark family secrets guaranteed to make your blood run cold this holiday season.

Inspired by radio mystery dramas of the mid-twentieth century and the lost tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, Shelter from the Storm is a short story of approximately 5,000 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barrymore Tebbs
• Release date: Dec 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311510747

Barrymore Tebbs

Barrymore Tebbs' writing combines the brooding atmosphere of Gothic fiction with the unexpected twists and turns of the Psychological Thriller to create "historical, doom-laden creepfests about people struggling (and often failing) to make sense of the situations they find themselves in." A polished stylist with an uncanny ability to transport the reader to a specific time and place, in recent works he has moved from the form of Gothic horror popularized by such mid Twentieth Century writers as Daphne du Maurier and Thomas Tryon into the genre of Pulp style crime - resulting in Nocturne in the Key of Death and a Dark and Lonely Highway, both modeled on the writings of Cornell Woolrich. If you enjoy his stories, please consider leaving a review to help other readers discover the dark joy of Barrymore Tebbs' unique style of storytelling.

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