New: Ghost Camera

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Ghost Camera is officially published!

I want to take this chance to tell you a little about what’s inside…

In 2014, I published a novella called Ghost Camera.

I was still a very new writer and this was one of my first serious projects. It was a love letter to horror, to ghosts, and to fear–all things I’m obsessively captivated by.

Time passed, and Ghost Camera went out of print. This happens to old books occasionally. I’d thought the story would be largely forgotten; it was only a novella, after all.

I was completely wrong.

Many readers reached out, asking where they could find a copy. If you were one of them–hello, and thank you! It’s because of you that Ghost Camera is being reprinted. My publisher saw the requests, and they suggested this new edition.

The original Ghost Camera story is almost completely untouched from when it was first published ten years ago. I go into some of the details in the book’s foreword–I had the option to rewrite it, but ended up choosing to preserve it as it was, minus a few grammatical errors and edits for the sake of clarity.

There’s one major change, though: Ghost Camera no longer stands alone.

It’s now a full collection. Eight additional stories–some short, others novellas–fill out the space between the covers.

I wrote these extra pieces to complement Ghost Camera. They touch on similar themes, but each takes a different path.

One is a ghost story, because this is me, and ghost stories run in my blood. One preys on my fear of making a simple mistake while foraging. One is very, very short, and so bleakly dark that I nearly deleted it from the collection… but didn’t.

And then there is A Box of Tapes. It was partially written on a nineteen hour plane flight. It did very strange things to my brain; it felt like discovering my first love of horror, all over again.

In a lot of ways A Box of Tapes felt like Ghost Camera’s twin, separated by a decade. It seemed right to place it at the end so that the collection opens with Ghost Camera and closes with Tapes.

Together, there are nine horror experiences. Something very old. Something very new. Some dark, some hopeful. Every one of them as much a love letter to horror as Ghost Camera was, ten years ago.

Happy reading, dear friends,
— Darcy