Ghost Stories
Over the past few years, I've written several ghost stories similar to those I used to enjoy while watching a campfire on a trip with friends. While all of these stories are fiction, they are set in Tombstone or the surrounding countryside and include characters who may have been found in the town. I hope that you enjoy them.
- Billy Typhon. Billy is a mysterious stranger who watches an even more mysterious activity in the middle of Allen Street on a chilly October afternoon.
- Cathy Scott. Cathy Scott couldn't shake that feeling that she had been a citizen of Tombstone sometime before, but the odd store that had just opened seemed to beckon her back to an earlier life.
- Crazy Eddie. Crazy Eddie died in 1929 and it's pretty safe to say that no one was sorry to see him go. Then his story was told...
- Jack Dunlap. 3-Fingered Jack is buried at Boothill. Here is a fanciful story about how he got that name.
- John Slaughter. John Slaughter was an old lawman who was said to always get his man—alive or dead.
- Joseph Davis. Joseph Davis was ambushed in the desert and would have lost his life except for the strange ride he took on a train.
- Klondike Mike. Klondike Mike had a crazy tale about a woman and a silver ribbon. But just how crazy was his story?
- Neezer. Ghosts have a union—and go on strike??? This humorous ghost story introduces you to the Ghost Union of Tombstone and its president.
- Pale Horse. No one can remember the first day the pale horse was seen in Tombstone, but they sure remember its last day.
- Reunion. Reunion tells the tale about the day the ghosts came back to re-fight the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
- Tommy Cooper. Tommy Cooper was going back to Tombstone for Christmas with gifts for his wife and daughter, but they never forgot Santa's visit this year.
- Warren Tulley. Every few winters, an impossible snow rolls out of the Dragoons, and Tombstone's old-timers still watch the Charleston road for a light that shouldn't be there.