Promotional banner for Haunted Places, edited by Jamie Ferguson. A mist-shrouded forest with bare black trees and crimson leaves stretches into the distance. The title Haunted Places appears in large white letters centered across the image. Below, the tagline reads: 'Some places you leave behind. Others never let you go.' To the right, a thumbnail of the book cover shows the same forest scene with the title and editor’s name.

Haunted Places–Stories of Memory, Mystery, and Haunting

Step into the Shadows Some places linger long after their stories should have ended. An old lake house, a mist-veiled river, a garden on the Isle of Skye—these spaces hum with memory, grief, and echoes of what once was. In Haunted Places, the second volume of the Haunted anthology series from Blackbird Publishing, fourteen storytellers…

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