Dinner, Drinks and Ectoplasm, a short story collection Coming Soon to Amazon!
Updated: Jun 10
I'm happy to announce my short story collection, Dinner, Drinks and Ectoplasm will be released on October 10, 2023 on Amazon and wherever fine books are sold!
Although this is not a Halloween collection, a few of the stories revolve around the spooky holiday—the best holiday, in my opinion. “The Pumpkin Carvers,” “Smiling jack,” “Bonnie,” and “That Time of Year,” celebrate All Hallows Eve in all its orange and black glory.
A few other themes you'll find here range from a creepy family that arrives at a boarding house in “The Boarders,” a businessman who decides to date a ghost in “Dinner, Drinks, and Ectoplasm,” and a possessed priest who hunts his parishioners during his nocturnal hours in “Lynn,” to name a few. Many have been sitting on the shelf for some time, so I decided to release them all in one place to further implement my plan of world domination by poisoning the masses.
I'm currently working on more ideas to rot your mind. And as my father used to say when I was a kid, "Phil, stop watching those horror movies. They'll rot your mind." I didn't listen.
Please checkout my Amazon Bestseller debut novel, The Poe Predicament, released by Foundations Books, and be on the lookout for my upcoming novels: Worst Afterlife Ever, and Goat Yoga Massacre. Yes, you heard that right, and it's exactly what it sounds like. I'll keep you posted on release dates. As an added bonus, you'll find the first few chapters of those two novels in the back of this short story collection.
I love feedback, so drop me a line and let me hear your thoughts. You can email me at extraordinary117@gmail.com. Follow me on Twitter at philthomas@filmauthor1 and Facebook at facebook.com/phil.thomas.50115
I hope you enjoy the collection, coming October 2023!
Phil Thomas
June 2023
Table of Contents:
The Darker Season…………………...Page 6
That Time of Year……………………..Page 13
The Boarders………………………….Page 18
Smiling Jack…………….....................Page 23
The Clown Code……………………...Page 25
Dinner, Drinks, and Ectoplasm……...Page 29
Lynn……………………………...........Page 34
The Pumpkin Carvers………………..Page 48
The Floating Guillotine…………........Page 54
The Elf on the Fireplace Mantle…….Page 57
The Static Age………………………..Page 60
Bonnie………………………………....Page 98
The Poe Predicament (Sample)….....Page 111
Worst. Afterlife. Ever. (Sample)……..Page 120
Closing Thoughts……………………..Page 143
Before you take your seat, keep a few things in mind…
Don’t drink the green stuff unless you’d like to experience bouts of terror, visions of walking scarecrows, killer guillotines, human Halloween displays, immortal boarding house guests, Dracula’s castle, plus much more.
Author Phil Thomas presents eleven all-new cauldron bubbling tales conjured for you in his laboratory basement. Just don’t let the door lock behind you.
