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Going Down to San Antonio's Ghost Tracks

One of San Antonio’s persistent legends is that of the Ghost Tracks. The story goes that many years ago a busload of school children stalled out on a lonely stretch of railroad tracks. Naturally, a train came along and cut the bus in two, killing the driver and the children in front immediately. The children [Read it all...]

Scaring the Dickens out of them

Here’s something for the writers among us. Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in nearby Lockhart, Texas, is holding a Dickens-themed ghost story contest.

Contest entries must include a character from one of Charles Dickens’ works, be set in December around any of the December holidays and be under 4,000 words in length. The contest benefits Texas’ oldest continually-in-use library.

First prize [Read it all...]