A Tour of Abernathy Island - a new series of short horror stories is coming to get you

I have started releasing installments of a haunted horror series of short stories. A Tour of Abernathy Island is a little different than the usual, though. You see, Abernathy Island was a wretched place. The Abernathy clan saw to that. Yet fate has a way of balancing the scales.

Now, many years have passed since the atrocities of that fateful isle. Only ghosts remain. And so, what better subject matter is there to base a children’s Halloween album?

Yet that album was also cursed, doomed to haunt those who heard it until all copies were lost. The last known copy was stolen from a haunted library under mysterious circumstance.

Now, using many corroborating witness interviews and cross-checking against experts, the album has been recreated in transcription form – track for track for in-depth analysis of one of the most haunting incidents of all time. Furthermore, the diary of someone who braved the actual ghostly island accompanies each transcript to enable further study of those hauntings. Together, both pieces of the puzzle promise to unwrap the supernatural enigma.

Each installment of the series features behind the scenes information previously unavailable to collectors of that cursed album as well as a transcript of a ghoulish track and journal entry diving deeper into the legends of Abernathy Island.

Come, take a tour, won’t you? It won't kill you. No promises, though.

A Tour of Abernathy Island

A Traveler’s Journal

1 ) The Angry Ocean

Against the better judgment of pretty much everyone I know, I have decided to rent a rowboat and seek out the fabled Abernathy Island. It should be the adventure of a lifetime!

2 ) The Hunting Pack

I hear a rustling noise coming unseen from the grasslands. It is as if something is stalking me. I must be quiet!

3 ) The Cemetery

I have seen things, heard things, and experienced wonders and terrors few live to tell about..

4 ) The Abandoned Greenhouse

The air is cloyingly sweet with the odor of the strange orchids. My vision has blurred and I am dizzy.

5 ) The Caretaker’s Cottage

This dilapidated shack holds a secret. One that went to the grave with the skeletal remains of the caretaker lying in the old chair.

6 ) The Grand Foyer

The darkness is palpable. Candlelight is grossly insufficient in revealing what hides in shadow. I see movement from the corner of my eye. I am not alone, though I am certain there is not another living soul on the island.

7 ) The Fainting Room

The fainting room held true to its name. I wonder how long I was cataleptic. I know something happened to me whilst I was unconscious.

8 ) The Scrying Room

The Psychomanteum has a malevolent presence hanging in the air. The evil here is profound and I can only imagine what atrocities were once performed here.

9 ) The Playroom Garret

I know the twins are watching me. I can catch glimpses of them as they run and hide like some horrid little game. They laugh at me, but I fear worse what will happen when they stop laughing.

10 ) The Drawing Room (and secret coffer)

The tea is still steaming hot, the crumpets freshly baked and smelling delicious. I don’t know where they came from, but I am obliged. I push it out of my mind that there isn’t anyone alive who could have set this out for me.

 

The treasures of the house was not all lost, for I have discovered a secret coffer with unimaginable wealth. Dare I pilfer these tainted riches?

Ghost Log

The Ground’s Mysteries          

1)   Bootlegger’s Last Stand                  

2)  The Wreck of the Ruddy Dawn

3)  Cemetery Foible              

4)  Gertrude’s Locket 

5)  Winston Abernathy’s “Club 22”          

6) The Black Angel             

7) The Caretaker

The Mansion’s Mysteries

8)   Double Trouble?   

9)  The Scullery Maid

10)  The Typewriter

11)  The Scrying Room

12)  The Servant’s Revenge

13) The Blood Red Hand