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    The Call of the Sea: A Ghost Story
    The Call of the Sea: A Ghost Story
    The Call of the Sea: A Ghost Story
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    The Call of the Sea: A Ghost Story

    By Derek Clendening

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    Robert Scott and Lee Barker attend a seance with Sharon Wysocki, a local medium, to get inspiration for their next horror novel. Lee thinks she’s a fraud, but he’s willing to give it a try for a tax write-off. But creepiness turns to all-out discomfort when a familiar voice spews out of Mrs. Wysocki’s mouth, a voice that pushes Lee over the edge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDerek Clendening
    Release dateOct 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301489251
    The Call of the Sea: A Ghost Story

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      The Call of the Sea - Derek Clendening

      The Call of the Sea: A Ghost Story

      By Donovan Starr

      Published by Seductive Dreams Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Donovan Starr

      Sharon Wysocki didn’t advertise. If you wanted her to hold a seance for you, you needed to get a referral. So much for the idea of finding a newspaper ad that depicted a pair of hands cupping a crystal ball. That was what I’d really expected to do, to find such an ad or a Yellow Pages listing and make a phone call, but thankfully my publisher saw to all of the arrangements.

      Lee Barker had been my collaborator on over a dozen bestselling horror novels over the span of a decade, though most of those books had been suspense-oriented and had had precious little to do with the supernatural. Our publisher and agent had both had their fingers on the pulse of the market and knew that we needed to tackle the paranormal in depth before long. Both of them had wanted an outline on their desk yesterday and we had yet to even crack an idea, so I knew that something had to be done.

      Seeing a psychic had been my idea. Calling Mrs. Wysocki a psychic would be inaccurate, though, because she didn’t claim to see the future. She claimed to be clairvoyant and said that the dead could speak through her. Lee sputtered when I told him that. For a horror writer, Lee was awfully closed-minded, and it took a ton of convincing to get him to go to Mrs. Wysocki’s house with me. I reminded him that the fee that we paid her would be tax deductible and that just being there would stir the imagination and give us some great ideas.

      The promise of

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