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    Festival of Ghosts
    Festival of Ghosts
    Festival of Ghosts
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    Festival of Ghosts

    By Kelson Hargis

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    On July 15th of every year in Asia the gates of hell open allowing the dead to roam free and curse the living. Vietnamese children make burnt offerings of valuables from cash to whole homes to appease the dead and ensure, they're not afflicted by the itinerant spirits during The Festival of Ghosts. This year so will Matthew Powell whose father made burnt offerings of his own during the Vietnam war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKelson Hargis
    Release dateJan 6, 2014
    ISBN9781310615870
    Festival of Ghosts
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    Kelson Hargis

    Kelson Hargis is an author, analyst, and professional technical writer for a Fortune 100© insurer. He has a B.S.|B.A. in Organizational Innovation which he’s found to be completely useless. He’s also an internet entrepreneur and partner at 1106 & Darkhouse Films where he’s still forbidden from touching any equipment. Their 2016 Cincinnati 48 Hour Film Project entry Abaddon was critically acclaimed by close friends, relatives, and anyone remotely familiar with the disturbing nature of Kelson’s horror fiction. He’s occasionally permitted to relieve himself, eat, or sleep when he meets scripting word counts, casting, sourcing, and project management objectives. Kelson has published horror shorts such as Elijah’s Phone, Festival of Ghosts, and Acta Somnium under his brand HorrorByHargis. He's determined to prove his sanity to family and friends by publishing a compilation of modern realistic shorts called True Stories & Other Fantastic Tales, then despoil that with a supernatural, thriller novella, Karma, Pleasure & Pain both of which are almost done (really). Please don’t startle Kelson should you encounter him as he is considered "clinically unstable.” He is a contributing author of the horror anthology, Shadows And Teeth, Volume 2.

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      Also by Kelson Hargis: "Language Arts Don't let those innocent cherubs on the wildly out of place cover fool you, this little ditty comes at you like a runaway freight train. The author nails you and then just won't let up. Language Arts has one of the most intriguing concepts I've read lately: the power of language." —Ed

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