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Oct 25th The Wantland Files by Lara Bernhardt

Give a Spooktacular welcome to Lara Bernhardt author of The Wantland FIles. Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cauldron. Take your choice of a bat wing Chocolate Chip or Pumpkin, or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Lara Bernhardt and The Wantland Files. Plus Edgar Allan Poe’s Spirits of the Dead post for Halloween. Psst… don’t forget to enter the rafflecopter giveaway at the bottom of the post!

I remember thoroughly loving a book called It’s Halloween by Jack Prelutsky when I was little.

This is a book of poems, and that appreciation only increased the older I got.

The works of Edgar Allan Poe intrigued me beginning in high school. I liked all his writing and was particularly fascinated with The Raven.

His poem Spirits of the Dead is perhaps less well known, but perfect for Halloween:

Spirits of the Dead

By Edgar Allan Poe

Thy soul shall find itself alone

’Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone—

Not one, of all the crowd, to pry

Into thine hour of secrecy:

Be silent in that solitude

Which is not loneliness—for then

The spirits of the dead who stood

In life before thee are again

In death around thee—and their will

Shall then overshadow thee: be still.

For the night—tho’ clear—shall frown—

And the stars shall look not down,

From their high thrones in the Heaven,

With light like Hope to mortals given—

But their red orbs, without beam,

To thy weariness shall seem

As a burning and a fever

Which would cling to thee forever:

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish—

Now are visions ne’er to vanish—

From thy spirit shall they pass

No more—like dewdrop from the grass:

The breeze—the breath of God—is still—

And the mist upon the hill

Shadowy—shadowy—yet unbroken,

Is a symbol and a token—

How it hangs upon the trees,

A mystery of mysteries!

Laua tell us about The Wantland Files – She sees dead people. He doesn’t believe in ghosts.

The X-Files meets Ghost Hunters when psychic Kimberly Wantland is forced to collaborate with skeptic Sterling Wakefield as she investigates a ghost terrorizing a young family in the season finale of her hit television series The Wantland Files.

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A sneak peek between the pages of The Wantland Files:

The frigid blast hit her, not a tidal wave
crashing over her, but an iceberg, solid and powerful. And furious.

The icy shock took her breath away. She
gasped.

The entity dropped from above and sailed
past, blowing her hair behind her.
Strong, warm hands grasped her arms, intent on steadying her. She shook free as
Drew screamed.

“I told you to stay with the boy!” She
crossed the room in three steps and knelt beside the toddler bed.

Drew no longer sat in the corner.

“Kimmy? What’s happening?” Michael called
from the door.

“Just keep recording! She’s here. She’s
powerful. Keep the cameras rolling.”

Danielle’s voice joined the fray. “What’s wrong?
Drew! What’s happening?”

“Stay in your room,” she commanded as
forcefully as she could with lungs chilled by the dark entity. “Stay with your
baby!”

Her fingers trembled as she searched the
bed. Every square inch of the miniature thing. Her chilled hands were not so
numb that they would miss a toddler’s body. Where was he?

Frantic and scared, she lost control of her
extrasensory perceptions. She stopped running her hands over the bed and held
still. Clutching her crystal, she breathed deeply. Where was the entity? Where
was the boy?

About the Author:

Lara Bernhardt is a Pushcart-nominated writer, editor, and audiobook narrator. She is Editor-in-Chief of Balkan Press and also publishes a literary magazine, Conclave. Twice a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Fiction, she writes supernatural suspense and women’s fiction.

You can follow her on all the socials @larawells1 on Twitter and @larabern10 on Facebook, BookBub, and Instagram.

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