The Ghosts on This Road
The Ghosts on This Road

<p>Using her own eerie prose as a foundation, writer Linda Wojtowick collaborated with fellow author Soren Narnia on this experimental lo-fi blend of conversation and fiction. In the first volume (2020-2022, 25 episodes), they play paranormal researchers calling back and forth from the road to report on mysterious phenomena. In the second volume (2023, 15 episodes), they play strangers attempting to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed. In the third volume (2025, 15 episodes), they are film journalists drawn to a curious series of horror film screenings in a town full of legends. In all three volumes, short and subtle tales of terror link hours of observations on fear, memory, obsession, and the wonder of things that cannot be explained.<br /><br />Copyright 2020, 2023, 2025  by Linda Wojtowick. The podcast’s companion book, featuring dozens of Linda Wojtowick’s stories as heard in the episodes, is available on Amazon.</p>

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In the third volume of The Ghosts on This Road, two film journalists are drawn to a curious series of horror film screenings in a town full of legends.
In the third volume of The Ghosts on This Road, two film journalists are drawn to a curious series of horror film screenings in a town full of legends. Copyright 2020, 2023, 2025  by Linda Wojtowick. The podcast’s companion book, featuring dozens of Linda Wojtowick’s stories as heard in the episodes, is available on Amazon.
“I guess I just wish that the space we found, whatever ground or field, extended to wider lands… to countries barely known.”   End of Volume 2. The podcast's companion book, featuring all of Linda Wojtowick's stories as heard in the episodes, is available on Amazon.
“I think I have learned to dream big, because that sometimes feels like my only act of engagement or enchantment.”   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
“There’s nothing at all on the back cover but the name and logo of the press: Frostmarch Books of Montreal."
"It's been very eerie here on the train... I haven't been able to get much sleep at all."   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Another four years later: “I just don’t trust my read on things anymore.”   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
“Maybe in telling these stories of the road, we’re going to be all right now… this time, it’s got to be different.”   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
"I know it's ridiculous to think 'reincarnation,' but... is it my imagination, or somehow is her prose style yours too?"   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
“The eyes--I don’t know what to tell you about them. They’re beyond my world.”   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick. Additional text by Soren Narnia.
“The children seemed to cope with countering the monster by strategies that followed basic pathways: combat, taming, and being engulfed.”   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Four years later: “We’re all just one event away from feeling we’re suddenly back at square one.”   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
"I'm just not sure where we can go now with this store thing..."   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
"So I found this weird piece of masking tape..."   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
"I looked down and thought: Did someone move these rocks in the middle of the night...?"   In this second volume of 15 episodes, strangers attempt to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed.   Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
"Do you remember anything about the people who worked there? The staff?" In this second volume of 15 episodes, strangers attempt to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed. Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
“I’m so glad someone responded to my ad.”   In this second volume of 15 episodes, strangers attempt to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed. Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
"So it's up to you... Does it happen exactly how they said, the end of the world? Or is it so much worse than we could ever know?"
"I say a person, but it’s really just the shape of one... I don’t know what it is."
"What is just as perplexing is not what was found on board, but what was no longer there."
"If you wish to enter here, you'll need to clear your mind."
"Once upon a time, there was a little old bar on a little old street in a little old town."
"It wasn’t until she put the dollhouse in the closet that she got scared."
"I couldn’t stand it. The greed. The cooking fires. The stews and roasts. The... taste."
"It ate the things I brought. But it wasn't enough."
"It was all wrong. The face. It didn't make any sense."
"The town had a thing that scared."
"The men were torn apart and pieces of them were strewn like gory toys over the decks."
"It was already soaking out under the carpets and floorboards and rolling off the panels of stairs."   Listen to "Wolf Stories", an audiobook by Linda Wojtowick: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-ebnhu-b8b1f0
"There was a monster in the back seat."
"Every time a murder is discussed on the air, a murder takes place in the studio."
"Being scared is supposed to make you real.
"They would lie awake at night, feeling the soft crackle and crunch of their paper souls."
"Looking back later- when one was alive and one was dead- this was the time they built their effigy, their wicker man."
"He started finding hacked portions of a raw meat buried in the pitch-colored grass...
"This way, the road doesn't have to stop. It can go on and on and on."   Listen to "Wolf Stories", an audiobook by Linda Wojtowick: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-ebnhu-b8b1f0
"They were like... vultures in the desert. Circling round.
"I'm not human, even. I'm... I'm from the woods."
"He worried about his imagination. Was it finally just running wild, feeding on his heart?"
"There were sounds that didn't make sense."
"It's the loneliest thing in the world, recognizing a ghost."
"A beach town in autumn is an eerie thing." The podcast's companion book, featuring all of Linda Wojtowick's stories as heard in the episodes, is available on Amazon.