New Face, Who Dis?

It’s still us! Same badass logo and colors. Same badass attitude. The difference is, we’re leaving the publishing to other publishers for the most part. We’ll publish here and there, but not like before. We’re focusing on everything the author needs to help them get published. From editing to book covers and reviews, we are …

TBT Rhapsody in Red

Happy Throwback Thursday. In December of 2020, Stitched Smile Publications published Rhapsody in Red by Peter Molnar. A Rhapsody in Red: Two Novellas of The Damned escorts you through a thorny landscape of authentically flawed and frightening Americana. In this collection of two short novels, twenty-first-century tragedy intersects with the treacherous influence of the modern …

Haunted Location: Devil’s Hollow, Indiana

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Today’s location takes us to Devil’s Hollow, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Deep in the woods, on Cedar Canon Road, there exists a house. This house belonged to an old lady whom many believe was a …

Haunted Object: The Terracotta Army

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Today’s haunted objects are the “Terracotta Army” located in the Xi’an Shaanxi province of China. Discovered in 1974, this staggering array of funeral art/afterlife army contains a collection of life-sized clay figures, a mausoleum, tombs, weaponry, …

Haunted Object: The Destiny Ring

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Today’s haunted object is the “Destiny Ring.” This story would make Sauron smile. The Destiny Ring or Valentino’s Cursed Ring was purchased by silent film star “The Latin Lover,” in a California pawn shop. Story goes …

Haunted Objects: Aunt Pratt

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Today’s haunted object is the painting known as “Aunt Pratt” from Southern Virginia. The story starts in the 18th century with a girl named Martha who left her family to go study, commissioned a portrait of …

Haunted Objects: chair of death

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Today’s haunted object is known as the “Chair of Death” or “The Killing Chair of Thomas Busby.” This 300-year-old chair is currently displayed in a museum, hung from the ceiling, high above sitting position so that …

Haunted Objects: Tallman Bunk Beds

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Today’s search takes us to Horicon, WI and the Tallman Bunk Beds. 1987 was a good year for a lot of people, but not for everyone. Enter the Tallman family: dad, Alan, a supervisor in a …

Haunted OBject: The Ghost Ship Lady Lovibond

Welcome to weird Wednesday where we explore the darkest corners of the globe, searching for the mysterious and unknown. Our search this week turns up the Ghost Ship Lady Lovibond, a triple-masted schooner, and todays haunted object. The 1700’s weren’t kind to women. There was a superstition that any woman aboard a sea vessel would …

Haunted Locations: The Dark Mirror from Columbus, Ohio

Welcome back to weird Wednesday where we like to scour the internet for the scary and the strange, the mysterious and the macabre, today our search takes us the Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult, owned and curated by Dana and Greg Newkirk. Today’s object is known as The Dark Mirror, originally obtained from …