Showing posts with label William Black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Black. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Micro Mention "A Halloween Wraith"

William Black


"A Halloween Wraith" by William Black, to be honest, is a thoroughly forgettable short story. It takes place for the most part in Scotland… so there's that.

It's proof that just because something is old, that doesn't make it a "classic." What it isis mostly a meandering political scree from the 1800s with a ghost costume thrown onto it, and I have a feeling it was boring even then. The biggest claim I can make about this story is that it is hard to find, and it is actually truly pretty obscure. 

So there you have it. It just took twenty-two months of this blog with obscurity in its name to finally get to a piece of fiction that is genuinely obscure, other than my own fiction, of course. That's WIO's promise for you; if you consider it in terms of geological time, I delivered you actual obscurity almost instantly.

Back on topic, where could you find this story? No idea. First off, I'm not sure why you want to, and I only stumbled upon it because it was included in a collection of horror stories in the public domain, made cheap, sold on audible for a few months, before going defunct, and was taken down.