A Peril in the Vines is rising with a Bad Moon

Posted on by Teagan Riordain Geneviene

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Hello everyone.  Today I’m at Teri Polen’s blog, where she’s interviewing me for her October book festival, Bad Moon Rising.  This is a companion post for our discussion.  I hope you’ll visit Teri’s blog for the fun Halloween questions she asked me.

Here’s one of the great questions Teri asked me:

On Halloween, you wake up with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. How do you use this newfound power? 

Seance by Teagan via Playground

My answer:  Now and then I add real people from history to my stories, but I haven’t included any of the literary greats.  So, I would use my newfound power to let some ghostly great writers of suspense and horror hold their own séance!  If I could collect say… H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Daphne Du Maurier, Trueman Capote, and Mary Stewart, who (or maybe what) might they summon at a séance?  That’s a little too much to ponder for this interview, but I hope everyone will have fun with the idea.

Click over to Teri’s blog for the rest of the interview questions like “Which author/character would you like to Trick or Treat with?” 

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A Peril in the Vines

Coming Very Soon

For Bad Moon Rising, I’m announcing volume-3 in my 1920s “light horror” paranormal suspense series, A Medium’s Peril.  The new one is “A Peril in the Vines.”

Here are some of the image collages I’ve made for the novella.  I mostly used 1920s photos with newspaper print pages (also from the era) as backgrounds.

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In the Roaring Twenties, a gruesome vision leads famous psychic medium, Daphne Moultrie and her friends to a small town’s pumpkin festival.  A tangle of danger ensues.  They meet a handsome doctor, although something about him bothers our heroine.  There’s also a mysterious teenaged refugee.  Perhaps strangest of all is the quaint cottage where they stay — or at least the vines that almost cover it…  

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I hope you’ll join me at Bad Moon Rising for more fun.  Thanks for visiting.  Happy Halloween!

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A Medium’s Peril, the Series

Universal Purchase Links

A Peril in Ectoplasm

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A Peril in the Bayou

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Paperback:  relinks.me/B0CKHFYMLJ

Click this link > You can find the full series and/or individual books at Amazon.

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54 thoughts on “A Peril in the Vines is rising with a Bad Moon”

  5. That sounds cool, Teagan, calling some of the great literary figures. If I had the opportunity to call/connect with the dead, I’ll call my parents, and all maternal/paternal aunts/uncles, grandparents and whosoever connected in the family. I have like a huge list of unanswered questions I want to ask and find answers for them. In a way, I’ll be digging up all the skeletons (pun intended) in that seance. Not sure, if they’ll let me live by the end of the session but that knowledge will be worth the risk.

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  6. Super-cool pictures! I love the effect, and the photo choices! If I could communicate with the departed, I’d have a big happy reunion with my late loved ones. Sometimes I have those in dreams, and it would be great to have one for real. 🙂

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  10. That was a good bit of fun over at Terri’s! I left a comment over there.

    As for this post…LOVE what you did with the vintage pics and the newspaper collages. Fabulous, Teagan.

    I’m sure you already know my fave page is the one with what looks like a Chanel gown. Chanel or not, I love it!

    Congratulations on releasing A Peril in the Vines!

    Teagan, both posts have added up to a lot of fun and enchantment.

    Thank You! HUGS!

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    1. Huge thanks for visiting both posts Resa. Ah! I should have known that image would catch your eye. It reminded me of one from one of the Gatsby movies (a fairly recent version, although I don’t know what year, or whether there has been another since). I was disappointed that I couldn’t get a clearer picture of that gown. The information I found is this: Model Marion Morehouse, dress with a satin bodice and tulle skirt by Callot, with a cap and jewelry by Black, Starr, and Frost.
      Big hugs winging back to you.

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  20. I’m on my way over to Teri’s place, but I like your answer. I’m not sure I’d want to be in the room with those ghosts, at least not alone. I have catering experience, maybe I could serve food when you have them over.

    I’m looking forward to A Peril in the Vines. I hope you have a nice day.

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  21. Great post, Teagan, and I’m very intrigued by your answer, and of course, by A Peril in the Vines. I look forward to it! (And I’ll keep thinking about what such seance might result in). There’s a story there…

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