Portraits of Dark Things

By Craig A. Bowers

Book Summary:

Lock your doors, find a well-lit corner and prepare to be unnerved by these terrifying tales of frightful fiends...

"Each story and picture is a tasty morsel of the macabre. Please, sir, I wa

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig Bowers
• Release date: Oct 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781088004623

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Portraits of Dark Things

A Collection of Ghastly Tales and Haunting Images

Written and Illustrated by

Craig A. Bowers

Edited by

Mary Anne Fisher

Copyright @ 2021 by

Craig A. Bowers

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the author.

ISBN: 978-1-0880-0462-3

Printed in the United States of America

For my son, Luke, and his love of horror stories that inspired me to write these tales, and my lovely Anne, who inspired and assisted in their publication.

Table of Contents

The Haunting of Abernathy Hall

The Ghost Girl of Ghostville

Doctor Bloody Black Bones

The Hag of Witch Hollow

The River Man

The Kingsbury Ghost

Rotten Head…

The Headless Bride

The Yeti Mummy Monster

The Ghost in the Graveyard

Crazy Sally Sassafras

The Banshee of Bloody Foreland

Wickedeimus

The Ghost of Mister Buckles

Dead Sugar

The Haunting of Abernathy Hall

Patrons, stagehands and actors alike insist this frightful specter is the dark spirit of Baltus Brimwald, a once infamous performer known far and wide for his fiendishly sinister roles in an array