The Gordon Place by Isaac Thorne Guest Post -- Giveaway***
The Gordon Place
by Isaac Thorne
Horror
Date Published: 04/15/2019
Publisher: Lost Hollow Books
Lost Hollow constable Graham Gordon just walked into his abandoned childhood home for the first time in twenty years. Local teenagers have been spreading rumors about disembodied screams coming from inside. Now, thanks to a rickety set of cellar stairs and the hateful spirit of his dead father, he might never escape.
Meanwhile, Channel 6 News feature reporter Afia Afton—whose father is the victim of a local decades-old hate crime—is meeting with town administrator Patsy Blankenship. Her mission is to develop a ghost story feature for a special to air on the station’s Halloween broadcast. When Patsy tells her about the screams at the Gordon place, the past and the present are set on a collision course with potentially catastrophic results.
Can Graham come to terms with his father’s past and redeem his own future? Can the murder mystery that has haunted Afia for most of her life finally be solved?
It’s a fight for the future and the past when spirit and flesh wage war at the Gordon place.
Guest Post
What Is a Muse, Anyway?
By Isaac Thorne
I follow a barge-load of independent and traditionally published writers on social media. It's more of a gigantic rowboat-load, I suppose. We're all there to support each other as we sweat blood and push and pull at the varying sizes of waves of work involved in getting words out of our heads, onto pages, and ultimately out for public consumption. Now and then, another writer will inevitably post a quiz or a general question to the rest of us asking how we might describe our muse. A muse, in Greek mythology, is one of nine goddesses who are responsible for doling out creative inspiration to those who do what I do, which is make up shit to tell a story. In modern terms, many writers consider their muses to be less spiritual and more conceptual, or even flesh and blood.If I'm candid with myself and every other writer out there, I don't think I have a muse. I've been writing stories since I learned to complete sentences with the oversized pencils and lined newsprint we children of the 1970s were provided to learn to draw letters. In all that time, I've never once considered that a mythical being, a spiritual being, a concept, or a flesh-and-blood individual might be the sole source of the words and ideas that flow from my fingertips to the keyboard as I write. If I do have a muse, I wish she'd be a little clearer in her dictation as I write. It might save me a few weeks of rewriting, editing, and beta-reader work if she was.
Don't get me wrong here. I'm not poking fun at writers who have or who believe they have a muse. I'm saying only that I don't buy it in terms of my work. That said, I can't say that I'm pulling all that stuff out of my ass, either. If my work is inspired by anything, it's probably most inspired by news items and current events as I watch what often feels like a world-wide apocalypse unfolding on the evening news every day. By some definition, I suppose I might have a muse. If I do, she's most likely dressed as a television news reporter, standing in front of some gigantic fireball of a disaster, and carrying a microphone.
About the Author
ISAAC THORNE is a nice man who has, over the course of his life, developed a modest ability to spin a good yarn. Really. He promises. Just don’t push him down a flight of stairs.
Isaac reviews films for TNHorror.com and TheHorrorcist.com. He is the host of Thorne’s Theater of Terror and Classic
Cuts on 24/7/365 horror-themed SCRM Radio at scrmradio.com.
More of Isaac’s work is available at isaacthorne.com and wherever books are sold.
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