Gothic-Horror.com


AntonVonStefan@gothic-horror.com

  • Home
  • Books
    • The Curse of the Red Crystal and Other Gothic Tales
    • A Very Strange Christmas!
    • The Curse of Count Louis Vincenti and Other Gothic Tales
    • Tales of Terror and Imagination - Volume III
    • Tales of Terror and Imaginatin - Volume IV
    • The Tale of Doctor Leopold
    • Anton Von Stefan's Vampyre Sagas
  • First Page - A Very Strange Christmas!
  • Sales
  • Forwards to The Gothic Story
    • About the Author - A Personal Glimpse
    • The Shrouding
    • The Incredible Mirror
    • The Death of Mrs Witmore
    • The Curse of the Red Crystal
    • The Passing of Mr Needles
    • The Bizarre Events at Carlton House
    • Number 80 Harrow Street
    • The Thoughts of Jonathan Moor
    • The Tale of Dr Leopold
    • The Thin Line
    • The Ghastly Demise of Mr Duff
  • First Pages - The Curse of the Red Crystal
    • The Shrouding - Page 1
    • The Incredible Mirror - Page 1
    • The Death of Mrs Witmore -Page 1
    • The Curse of The Red Crystal - Page 1
    • The Passing of Mr Needles - Page 1
    • The Bizarre Events at Carlton House - Page 1
    • Number 80 Harrow Street - Page 1
    • The Thoughts of Jonathan Moor - Page 1
    • The Tale of Dr Leopold - Page 1
    • The Thin Line - Page 1
    • The Ghastly Demise of Mr Duff - Page 1
  • Services
  • Twisted Biography
    • The Beginning
    • The Middle Years
    • The Formative Years
    • The Gothic Writer Emerges
    • A Night Like Few Others
    • Mr Needles Comes to Mind
    • The Malady Expands
    • The Curse of the Gothic Writer
    • The First Gothic Intonations are Released
    • At the Roar of a Midnight Fire
    • A Gothic Echo off the Mountains
    • ...And onto the Innocent, Unsuspecting Public the Gothic Horror Tales are to be Released!
    • The Gothic Author on the Move
    • The Gothic Road to St John's
    • The Gothic Return of Anton Von Stefan
    • The Author Vanishes
    • The Miraculous Rediscovery of the Gothic Author
    • A Florida Connection
    • A Ghost From The Author's Past, Arises?
    • An enlightenment
    • Hypothetical Theorist
    • The Saga Coninues into 2015
    • Budapest & Wagrain
    • From the Austrian Alps an Echo was Heard!
    • The manuscript is complete & he takes the final leap –
    • The Curse is Lifted; the Book is Launched 26
  • Songs
    • Wild Rover
    • Josef's Alm Kuchrl
    • A new ending to Shel Silverstein's 'Unicorn'
    • I Don't Want to be a Billionaire
    • I Pray For Your Hand
  • Poems
    • An Ode to a Lover As Yet Untouched
    • A Time; An Instant; An Eternity
    • Four Nights Before Christmas
    • If (I were to Dream)
    • Lest We Forget (A Reminder to THose Who Hold the Torch)
    • O Du Schöner Tannenbaum
    • The Ruby Ring
    • The Sparking Star
    • The Warm Light
    • Thoughts From Afar
    • Thoughts of You and I
    • Walking Tall
    • What Is A Mother ?
    • Winter's Sudden Approach
    • Writing, Fighting, But Enlightening
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

The Death of Mrs Witmore

Preamble

            Here we travel back to my own past.  If you have read my “Twisted Biography” within my web site, www.gothic-horror.com, you may recall that I was “born to a mother that had died three years before”.   In part two of that "Twisted Biography" I explain a part of this apparent impossibility. 

            During the birth of my brother, my mother was clinically dead for more than three minutes.  During all that time, she was not only able to extract her spirit from her immobile corporal form, but she was completely free of that earthbound flesh.  While I was young, she often related that experience to the wide-eyed and awe struck child who was to become ANTON VON STEFAN.  She spoke of how she was able to float about the room at will and how she watched “from above” as the doctors abandoned the effort of trying to revive both ‘dead’ individuals (my brother was also clinically dead at birth, I was told), and how they then concentrated their full endeavours on trying to save at least one of the two humans lying ‘dead’ before them.  It apparently took great effort, but once they actually received a response from that newborn child, and only after he began to cry, did my mother make the decision not to abandon that child.  It was hers and this baby needed a mother to nurture it.

            What is not written in the “Twisted Biography” is that my brother was my mother’s second child.  Her first born had also died, but did not ‘come back to life’ and was buried a few days after that memorable ‘birth’.  Perhaps, had my brother also perished in that hospital room, my mother may have opted to join in on the spirit world that very day so long ago, and I would never have arrived to write this horrid tale.

            Within “The Death of Mrs Witmore” we also have an individual who is very near death.  They are also able to roam the vicinity of where their comatose body rests; but, during that period of the supernatural, out-of-body experience, this spirit becomes privy to a most horrid truth.  As with most good, ghost stories, the revenge brought about is a most gruesome result of that restless spirit, an apparition who unwittingly had obtained that accursed knowledge.  Enjoy the tale!

 

Anton Von Stefan, October 2013

 

Go to:  First Page

Go to:  Forwards to The Gothic Story

Go to:  Books

Go to:  Home Page

Copyright 2012 Gothic-Horror.com. All rights reserved.

Web Hosting by Yahoo!


AntonVonStefan@gothic-horror.com