Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole

TICKET TO TERROR.In these chilling ghost stories for grown-ups set in Disney Parks, a thief is haunted by her sticky-fingered past. A woman wants an angry spirit to stop torturing her. A teenager demands her parents expel her wicked sibling. And a pilot wishes to unload his eerie cargo. But each will discover exorcism isn’t as easy as going to Disney World.

From the Inside Flap

Monorail ClearCasey's brother had died while clutching a Magic Kingdom ticket.Casey kept the ticket under a refrigerator magnet so he'd see it every night before he went to his job as a monorail pilot; Saturday, though, he notices it's missing.At work, he locks up the monorail fleet for the evening and starts hurrying to his car, only to stop when he hears the whoosh of a train on a nearby beam. "I know I secured them," he says on a call to his supervisor. "Should I go back and investigate? Someone could be joyriding." "No one told you?" his boss replied. "We have special hours for guests who held non-expiring tickets at death."

From the Back Cover

"...to sum up: with this new collection a robust new talent enters the genre of supernatural horror."~ Daniel Pearlman, author of The Best-Known Man in the World & Other Misfits"These stories are genuine page-turners that linger long after the reading; they're mysterious, eerie, and truly haunting."~ Susan Kim, author of City of Spies and Brain Camp with Laurence Klavan"Schoonover has taken this genre and made it her own...these stories are a delight to read."~ Jeanne Mackin, author of The Sweet By and By"Usually, I hate wild rides but I wouldn't have missed this one for the world. There's no question Petersen Schoonover has achieved an enviable blend of Disney and horror."~ Melissa Martin Ellis, author of The Everything Ghost Hunting Book

About the Author

Kristi Petersen Schoonover's short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Full of Crow, Eclectic Flash, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Macabre Cadaver, Morpheus Tales, Citizen Culture, MudRock: Stories & Tales, New Witch Magazine, Spilt Milk, Toasted Cheese, and a host of others, including several anthologies. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College; she's also the recipient of Norman Mailer Writers Colony Winter 2010 and 2011 Residencies. She hosts the paranormal fiction segment on The Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show broadcast and serves as an editor for Read Short Fiction. She lives in the Connecticut woods where she still sleeps with the lights on.

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