Katherine Kerestman
Author
Katherine Kerestman is the author of Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020) — a non-fiction travel memoir to destinations associated with macabre stories in history, literature, and film — as well as numerous horrific short stories and non-fiction articles in all kinds of creepy anthologies, scholarly journals, and popular magazines.
She has a B.A. from John Carroll University, and an M.A. from Case Western Reserve University; and she is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, the Jane Austen Society of North America, the Horror Writers Association, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and the Dracula Society.
She is wild about Dark Shadows and Twin Peaks and has been seen frolicking in the graveyards of Salem on Halloween. You can keep up with her at www.creepycatlair.com
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Shunned Houses
Anthology, Horror
Some say home is where the heart is, but what if the heart in your home is the “Tell-Tale Heart”?
Houses can be reservoirs of joy . . . or misery. When this affective power endures, a place is said to be “haunted.” When this energy for good or evil continues-especially when it touches people who were not involved in the primary circumstance which occurred in that location-then a place is considered alive. Places, then, may serve as portals through which a person can enter into the past, both psychically and physically; moreover, the effects of a place upon a person may influence what happens going forward. Places are causes, and they are effects.
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.
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).
“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.”