The Ghost In My Machine

Stories of the strange and unusual. Also DANGEROUS GAMES TO PLAY IN THE DARK, out now from @ChronicleBooks.

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This week, the legend of a very old tree and an exceedingly unlikely friendship... https://t.co/GjDeXJHUmq

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While you're waiting for #PDWEternalNightmare, check out this selection of amazing desktop-like games by
@GhostMachine13, featuring our very own #ProjectDeepWeb

#indiegames #indiedev

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Got some questions you want answered? You could try asking Manami-sama. Just... be careful about how you go about it. https://t.co/Ji4NNBYPSs

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Today, a look one of my favorite highly specific video game genres: Games that take place (almost) entirely within a computer interface, or, as I tend to think of them, UI-likes. Here are 22 interesting ones, plus a few honorable mentions. https://t.co/TQ8TyVKPFF

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Memoirs are tricky things. Or, perhaps more accurately, the act of writing a memoir is a tricky thing. And it becomes tricker still if you write yours with a mysterious object like this one... https://t.co/aiRbAFu2EZ

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Hungry grass, or féar gortach, appears most often to be simply an ordinary patch of grass — which, of course, is what makes it so dangerous: Those who have trod upon it will typically not know that they have done so until it's already too late... https://t.co/nmX2tilsRK

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If you've ever wondered, what if the Hosting Game, but a divination ritual? Well, allow me to introduce you to the Hospitality Game. Ready to be the ghost host with the most? https://t.co/AbyHDX3nWp

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While I am holed up on my couch recovering from having my mouth ripped open and various things extracted and grafted, please enjoy the weird and possibly cursed history of Houska Castle in the Czech Republic: https://t.co/vDRaAW5zIm

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You’re all wise enough not to entrust any of your valuable information to an odd and seemingly untraceable website, right?... Right??? https://t.co/JhjaLstLoG

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Reason number five million not to go out after sunset or let your fingernails get too long. https://t.co/keN8A2YWGl

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Part summoning ritual, part wish-granting ritual, and part piece of blood magic, this week's Most Dangerous Game sees you calling upon the titular Being From The Beyond to make a request. There is, however, more to this one than meets the eye, of course... https://t.co/fJDDHYPb44

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Wisconsin, I have learned, is full of weird things. Among them is Summerwind Mansion - or, at least, its ruins. Strap in - it's... quite a tale. https://t.co/1mcE2mI1kE

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Don't look at this painting. Not if you value your life. https://t.co/knwmSFBut7

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Want to play the Elevator Game, but don't have access to a building with an elevator? Here's a staircase-based alternative. Just... make sure you know what you're in for before you try it. https://t.co/q8yHfrPJ2f

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When is a house not a home? When it's a horrible home - a place where something terrible has happened, or is happening, or will happen sometime in the future. And the houses in these horror novels are definitely NOT places you'd want to live. https://t.co/byCy5LdmNg

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The perfect video game doesn’t exi— https://t.co/Hw29HqgIc3

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If Taxi #45 pulls up next to you in Davao City in the Philippines... don't get in. It might just be a ghost taxi. https://t.co/u286xMw0eF

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Valentine's Day is fast approaching, so let's take a look at a seasonally-appropriate ritual game. Just be warned: Who - or what - your “eternal love” is may not be what you're expecting. https://t.co/qBmxbe7eNV

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In the 1970s, two small boys unearthed a pair of tiny stone heads from their garden in the village of Hexham in the UK. We still don't know exactly what the Hexham heads are - or where they've gone. https://t.co/iWh9YtgyuR

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Meet the Headless Horseman's modern cousin. https://t.co/tYYlWZASCX