Between the Darkness and the Dawn, A Short Story by Paula Cappa

Author:Paula Cappa
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: short stories, mystery suspense, mystery and ghost stories, supernatural mysteries, mystery and suspense fiction, fiction ghosts, mystery supernatural, supernatural ghost story, mystery paranormal, mystery and ghost

Author’s Note:

In Concord Massachusetts, Miss Martha Hunt of Punkatasset Hill was found drowned in the Concord River, not far from the Old Manse, on July 9th 1845, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ellery Channing, and others. Her death was termed “melancholy suicide.” Mr. Hawthorne fictionalized Martha’s death in his novel Blithedale Romance.

Opening lines are quoted from Hawthorne’s The Haunted Mind.

About the Author

Paula Cappa is an award-winning novelist and short story author. Her novels include The Dazzling Darkness (Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction, and, Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal Award), and Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural, both published in trade paperback by Crispin Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, Mystery Time, and Human Writes Literary Journal. Cappa’s writing career began as a freelance journalist for newspapers in New York and Connecticut.

She is a freelance copy editor and writes a weekly blog, Reading Fiction, Tales of Terror at paulacappa.wordpress.com.

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