Stoke the campfire and get ready for some chills and goosebumps when you open this paranormal addition to the award-winning Bethlehem Writers Group’s Sweet, Funny, and Strange anthologies.

Among our twenty-seven stories, we bring you Jeff Baird’s Bailey’s Mountain which shows a romp with man’s best friend through Mother Nature morph into a visit to the supernatural. Dianna Sinovic’s Point of View describes a mysterious shifting painting and its sinister effects on its new owner. Jodi Bogert brings us Old Man Omar, and shows us that sometimes those we consider crazy might just know some things we don’t. In DT Krippene’s Hell of a Deal, a man buys a house for a price that’s too good to be true–until he discovers the bizarre strings attached. Kidd Wadsworth’s The Beast brings a ghost story to life–but can her characters escape with theirs?

In addition, we have new stories of the unexplained from favorite authors Courtney Annicchiarico, Walter Bego, A. E. Decker, Marianne H. Donley, Headley Hauser, Ralph Hieb, Jerome W. McFadden, Stanley W. McFarland, Emily P. W. Murphy, Christopher D. Ochs, Paul Weidknecht, and Carol L. Wright. Also included are the winning stories from the 2017 and 2018 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story Award by Suzanne Purvis and Christine Eskilson respectively.

So sit back to enjoy a drift through the paranormal–but don’t let the fire go out!