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Ghost Story Competition Results

We are thrilled to share the results of our eighth ghost story competition with you. As always, the standard was very high and the judges had a difficult job choosing the winners.

Adult Winners and Shortlisted Stories (these will appear in our anthology)

1st Place: The Hanged Man by Peter Cackett

2nd Place: Knock at the Door by Gillian Mirza

3rd Place: I’ll Be Home For Christmas by Jacqui Cooper

Shortlist:

Beyond the Lammas Burn by A.W. O’Neill

Evil in the East by Peter Cackett

Late Delivery by Rob Waft

Moths to the Flame by Sandra Ireland

SCRABBLING by Jan Snook

Terror at the Tudor Tavern by Ellen Evers

Young Jack Keagan by Ken Cohen

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Ghost Osa Prize:

Across the Tossing Waves by Thomas Cox

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We’d also like to congratulate the following writers on having their stories longlisted, and only missing out by a whisker:

A Bargain with the Last Son of the Earth by Andy Raffan

A Powder Blue Christmas by John Matthews

Am I… A Ghost? by Thomas McClure

Going Bananas by Claire Buckle

Graveyard Tales by Suzanne Parsons

Lost Heart by Susie Dodd

Susannah’s Letter to Her Children 24th December 1857 by Clare Marsh

Tales of Long Ago by Vivienne Moles

The Bellemede Ghost Walk by Vivienne Moles

The Fabric of Souls by Mairi Alexandra Macleod