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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.





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