Katherine Kerestman
Author
Katherine Kerestman (B.A. English and History, John Carroll University; M. A. English, Case Western Reserve University) is the author of Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020), Haunted House and Other Strange Tales (Hippocampus Press, 2024), and Lethal (Psychotoxin Press, 2023). Furthermore, she is the Editor (with S. T. Joshi) of The Weird Cat (WordCrafts Press, 2023), Shunned Houses: An Anthology of Weird Stories, Unspeakable Poems, and Impious Essays (WordCrafts Press, 2024), and Witches and Witchcraft (Hippocampus Press, 2025).
More than 80 of her Lovecraftian and gothic poems, essays, and short stories have been featured in numerous anthologies, popular magazines, and academic journals. Katherine thinks Dracula and Wuthering Heights are the greatest books ever written, and she is wild about Dark Shadows and Twin Peaks. Her name is etched forevermore among the inscrutable glyphs of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the Dracula Society.
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Cultes des Goules
Anthology, Horror
Whatever life brings, it always ends in death—always!
Life can be pleasurable, exciting, filled with adventure! It can also, at times, be horrific. Dire circumstance may arise out of nature or chance—but sometimes, perhaps even oft-times, they are the result of malignant human agency. People have the capacity to be scarier than the most horrible monsters, demons, or deities dreamt up by horror writers. The evil among us will sacrifice their fellow earthlings in a heartbeat, if they think there is something in it for them.
Whatever life brings to the greatest or the lowliest among us, it always ends in death—always. It is the natural order of things. Until that time, we either think about the end, or try not to think about it.
These collected stories from celebrated horror storyteller, Katherine Kerestman, which were inspired by real-life experiences, will give you something to think about while you ponder the inevitable.
Also by Katherine Kerestman
The Weird Cat
In The Weird Cat you delve into that larger realm through more than three dozen classic and contemporary short stories, poems, and essays by masters of the craft including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary A. Turzillo, Christina Sng, Darrell Schweitzer, and others.
Edited by Katherine Kerestman and S. T. Joshi.
Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels
Chilling tales of haunting, surreal, and inhuman entities that frighten us have been told by people of all times, and every place. It is the angst and insecurity which come with being human that these horror stories express. It turns out that, in the process of describing these forces and creatures (that which we are not), we are defining by negation our own humanity (that which we are).
Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels
One’s home is a special Place, and yet even your home may be infused with doubtful associations. At the end of a stressful day at work, you may want to run home-to the house that functions as a harbor, shelter, or castle; on the other hand, a home is sometimes a place to run away from, a cage or a trap. Perhaps the best we can do is hope that we live in a benevolent house.
Shunned Houses delves into that larger realm through more than three dozen classic and contemporary short stories, poems, and essays by masters of the craft.
“Kerestman takes the reader gently by the hand and leads them on a tour through a world of monstrous Belgian paintings, haunted opera houses, and Lovecraftian seaports. Rather than simply reporting on all of these fascinating places, Kerestman uses these travels as an entryway into a series of meditations on how disquieting histories can leave their mark on specific places, and what it means for us to live in a haunted world. Readers will enjoy the tales of well-known destinations, such as Salem and the Tower of London, but might find themselves even more enticed by the dark corners that Kerestman finds off the beaten path. These are journeys well worth taking.”