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    The Rocking Lantern
    The Rocking Lantern
    The Rocking Lantern
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    The Rocking Lantern

    By Alan Place

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    This is my second ghost story, again set in and around the coast of North Yorshire. Although the main part of the story is fiction, the storm at the end which cost 55 lives in on record.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlan Place
    Release dateJan 31, 2014
    ISBN9781498919210
    The Rocking Lantern
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    Alan Place

    I have wanted to be a writer since I learned to read. My reading ability was always at the top of the class and this developed into the talent for storytelling.  In 2011 an injury to my left leg left me disabled and I finally got the opportunity to try to write. The first stories I had published were in a US available only anthology.  The Ghost of St. Mary's and The Rocking Lantern were not only the first published, but the first I wrote. Later that year, I had Old Church Ghosts published on line in the UK. The original version is only availlable in the Special Edition version.  I made my on line reputation for ghost stories, but I also write for the children's charity books by The Peacock Writers. In 2012, my book Chronicles of Mark Johnson won an award for excellence from the US on line magazine  indiePENdents.org. Both this book, and its sequel Wharfemere Finale had rave reviews from New York reviewer, Fran Lewis. In recent times, my US hit series Forgestriker has sold over 350 e-books in the seven books series, and earned me a reputation for writing sci-fi in the USA.

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      The Rocking Lantern - Alan Place

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      THE ROCKING LANTERN

      I sat on the sea wall at North Bay in Scarborough; looking out to the North Sea and thinking about my previous visit and how I put the spirit of a young girl to rest; as told in the story The Ghost of St. Mary’s, available to read in my book of the same title.

      Some people may think me silly for saying this, but in the past I had come to realise spirits can help if you let them; all you need to do is have an open mind.

      I sat on the wall and watched the waves; my mind resting with the pleasant sounds of the sea rolling in from afar and the sights and sounds of the seas, in these circumstances you can imagine things which are not real. My mind was not thinking of anything in particular when I thought I saw something. I only caught the slightest glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. There appeared to be a boat heading towards the lighthouse and harbour, but how could I be sure, I hadn’t been concentrating on anything. Trust your senses to tell you the story. I sat there for an hour or two, wave watching and thinking of what I had witnessed. A ship going into the harbour and making good time, but something amiss about her and at this time I couldn’t place what was wrong, which is where my story starts.

      The image of the ship heading into harbour stayed with me all day; I replayed the scene in my mind and every time I did, the mystery remained. A piece of the scene did not fit and I had to find out why, no matter how many times I thought about the scene, the ship appeared wrong to me.

      Later that night I was out having a stroll along the sea front, enjoying the spring salty air and feeling good about things. I was in Scarborough, a town I loved since my childhood. Although the town centre has changed and is full of shops you can

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