“…of ghostly matters.” I have been working on two projects back and forth over the many months. One is a collection of faerie tales and illustrations and the other is a compilation of spooky and scary stories and illustrations. More specifically, things that are...of ghostly matters. “Born on the Chime Hours” Not so many ages ago, as far as time goes for we simple and humble mortals who shuffle about our ballet of daily routines and rituals on this wonderful blue orb, there was an accepted common belief or rather, superstition. That superstition were, if a child born late in the dark midnight hours of a Friday when hallowed church bells solemnly toll and peal across the landscape, that that child was to be born with “second sight”, to wit, the unsettling gift and unnerving talent of seeing ghosts, the dead and the deceased. I like many of you, was fortunate to be born on a bright, sunny weekday morning and would never experience the haunting effects of being...“born on the chime hours”. K. W. King