Old Church Ghosts-Special Edition

By Alan Place

This re-edited special edition of my most read story includes not only the popular version as seen in "A Spooky Fall Harvest" which was in the book written by the Peacock Writers and my adult ending version. This volume includes a previously unpublished version only seen online for a week at Halloween 2011.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alan Place
• Release date: Jan 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781497740983

Alan Place

I have wanted to be a writer since I learned to read. My reading ability was always at the top of the class and this developed into the talent for storytelling.  In 2011 an injury to my left leg left me disabled and I finally got the opportunity to try to write. The first stories I had published were in a US available only anthology.  The Ghost of St. Mary's and The Rocking Lantern were not only the first published, but the first I wrote. Later that year, I had Old Church Ghosts published on line in the UK. The original version is only availlable in the Special Edition version.  I made my on line reputation for ghost stories, but I also write for the children's charity books by The Peacock Writers. In 2012, my book Chronicles of Mark Johnson won an award for excellence from the US on line magazine  indiePENdents.org. Both this book, and its sequel Wharfemere Finale had rave reviews from New York reviewer, Fran Lewis. In recent times, my US hit series Forgestriker has sold over 350 e-books in the seven books series, and earned me a reputation for writing sci-fi in the USA.

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Old Church Ghosts-Special Edition

Alan Place

Published by Alan Place, 2014.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

OLD CHURCH GHOSTS-SPECIAL EDITION

First edition. January 28, 2014.

Copyright © 2014 Alan Place.

ISBN: 978-1497740983

Written by Alan Place.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

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COPYRIGHT

COPYRIGHT OF ALAN PLACE

July 11, 2019

NOTICE

This book is the property of Alan Place, and may not be stored electronically or in other forms either in whole or part without his written consent; please respect the rights of the author of the work.

This story is a work of fiction and is in no way meant to depict events or people, any resemblance to events, or people are unintentional.

HISTORY OF A STORY

This story started its life as a short story for three friends and was never intended to go further. I didn't think anybody would wish to read the story. I didn't like it-how wrong could I be?

From its original version, this story has become my most read story and until now the original text and the second version-the first publicized version-have not been widely available.

The original was so good some friends asked me to send it to an editor friend, after a lot of coaxing I did-with an equal amount of trepidation. I sent the story to my friend Emma Oram who edited the magazine Vintage Script for two years.  After a little editing, she published the story online; my idea was for a Christmas ghost story, but Emma decided to run a Halloween particular page for her online magazine and so began the journey.

The next version is the most popular and most read, another friend edited this family-friendly version, Paula Shene-for the children's charity The Peacock Writers and appeared in the book A Spooky Fall Harvest.

The final version is my adult themed ending and has a scary and unpleasant feel, worthy of the writer of ghost stories.

AUTHOR NOTES

I was making a small reputation online for ghost stories when I wrote Old Church Ghosts, at the time of finishing and to this date, I still do not like the story for many reasons. I think the main reason is I sent my friends two earlier stories and both Ghost of St. Mary's and The Rocking Lantern are much larger and I felt I let my friends down sending a short story.

Another reason is for some reason I felt the story didn't gel as the others did and this concerned me, as I don't like to send low-grade stories out-despite this I have written over 400 short stories and only scrapped two.

The church of St. Andrew's still stands overlooking