The Yellow of the Flickering Past

He killed her with a magic spell, buried her in the basement, and now she nags him every day to take her to the movies, just as she nagged him when she lived. The woman never got tired of buttered popcorn and a dark theater.

A really strange ghost story about love, death, and the movies.

Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred published short stories.

His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. Soon he will be again editing for Fiction River.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name and having great fun as an indie writer as well.