The Sound of Footsteps
A Short Horror Story

WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT! this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review. this is the SIXTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day i......more

I was probably most excited to listen to this one because it's by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who wrote Mexican Gothic. However, it fell kind of flat for me; I was expecting more of an "Ouija board gone wrong, then scary ghosts teach them a lesson" type of thing, but it just wasn't very... scary? After li......more

A short, sweet, and moving modern Gothic! I listened to this over breakfast, and the predawn kitchen was the perfect atmosphere. It deals so delicately with the pain of confronting people and places you've grown away from, and the ghosts that growth makes for everyone involved. The hauntings of chil......more

"The Sound of Footsteps" is a mesmerizing tale that will enchant fans of Anne Rice and Gothic literature alike. Moreno-Garcia's skillful storytelling and vivid imagery transport readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead is blurred, and where the echoes of the past reverberate......more

Teenage promises forgotten, friendships fallen by the wayside through the passage of time. The different hands life can deal, success to one and misery/loneliness to another. More of a slice-of-life short than something on the horror/scary side of things.......more